Paper in chemistry : To obtain pure and unadulterated those drugs that are of peculiar efficacy in medicine, is universally allowed to be an object highly deserving public attention: the Society ... have this Session ... after due trials of some opium prepared from poppies grown in England, given fifty guineas to Mr. John Ball, of Williton, ...

  • Ball, John, of Williton.
Date:
1796
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Credit: Paper in chemistry : To obtain pure and unadulterated those drugs that are of peculiar efficacy in medicine, is universally allowed to be an object highly deserving public attention: the Society ... have this Session ... after due trials of some opium prepared from poppies grown in England, given fifty guineas to Mr. John Ball, of Williton, ... Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2&z CHEMISTR Y. and take off the Opium; fo that the ex¬ pence will be found exceedingly trifling. The fmall white feeds in that ftate will be found very fweet and pleafant, and may be eat without the leaft danger; and it is the cuftom in the Eaft to carry a plate of them to the table* after dinner, with other fruits. I intend this year to keep apart a fmall quantity of Opium from each coloured Poppy, to find out if any one more than another produces the greateft quantity, or of the greateft ftrength; and fhall fave feeds of each, to fow feparately the next ipring. I am of opinion, that numbers of inclo- fares taken from hills in a fouth afpedt^ with a very little expence, may be brought into a proper ftate for the growth of Poppies. I fhould think that an inftrument may be made of a concave form, with four or five pointed lances, about the twelfth or fourteenth part of an inch, to make the in-