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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    CHEMIST R Y. i To obtain pure and unadultered thofe Drugs that are of peculiar efficacy in Medicine, is univerfally allowed to be an object highly deferving public attention : the Society, therefore, confidering how much the practice of Phyfic would bo advantaged by procuring a Drug of fo much confequence as Opium, in an un- fophifticated ilate, have this Sellion, after due trials of fome Opium prepared from Poppies grown in England, given Fifty Guineas to Mr. John Ball, of Williton, for the difcovery of his Method of preparing it, and which, from the authority of feveral eminent Phyfi- cians who made trial of the Opium, and whofe Letters are here inferted, it is hoped will prove an advantageous dif- covery. c