An Experimental Inquiry Into the Properties of Opium, and...
Leigh, John
Excerpt from An Experimental Inquiry Into the Properties of Opium, and Its Effects on Living Subjects: With Observations on Its History, Preparations and Uses, Being the Disputation Which Gained the Harveian Prize for the Year 1785
Linnjeus has placed the Papaver, a-e mong his Pollyand'ria Monogynia, and de fcribes 'feveral, fpecies, but his Papav'erz 'somniferum feems to be generally con-a fidered as that from which the opium is 'prepared.
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