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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    S I R, HAVE this poll received yours refpect* ing the refolution of the Society to give me fifty guineas for the difcovery of the procefs for obtaining Opium from Pop¬ pies grown in Great-Britain ; and, as you wilh for an immediate anfwer, muft beg that you will prefent my moft refpedtful compliments, and that I agree to accept of the conditions ftipulated in their refolu- tions ; and, in the courfe of a week, I will communicate to the Society the whole I am. Sir, t * * Your very humble fervant, John Ball, JVilliton, May 25, 1795. Mr. More. : - f K ■ - > My Lords and Gentlemen, BY your Secretary, Mr. More, I received your refolutions refpecting your pur- chafing from me the mode of my preparing the