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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY DECEMBER 17 1908.
THE ORIGIN OR OPIUM.
SIR RAY LANKESTER."
That Europe is the original home of the opium poppy,) and not "Asia, is even more contradictory of our enttled traditions and be lief than the fact that Europeans gave tobacco to the East. Yet it is the fact that opium, like tobacco, camo to the Far East from Europe The opium-poppy does not grow wild in. Asia; it is a citlivated variety of a Mediterranea peppy, the Papaver setigerum, which has a pale purple flower, and was convoyed, long ago, by man from the Levant to Asia. We have true poppies of four species which grow wild in England, all with splendid scarlet of crimson petals, easily distinguished from one another by the shape of the sood-boxes, or cap- sular, which, they foun. If you scratch the surface of the seed capsule of one of these pop pies a milky juice appears. It is this which is NOW OPEN. collected from the capsules of the much larger opium-poppy in India and China, and when dried forms a hard brown cake, which is called "opium." It consists of resinous matter, in which is contained a small quantity of the in valuabis narcotic called "morphis," and also small quantities of other powerful poisons.
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ANIMALS
The pale-purple poppy of the Mediterraneao (Papaver setigerum) was cultivated hundreds —even thousands of years ago in the South of Europe and on the Mediterransen shores of Africa-bot far opium, bui for the oil which can be expressed from the seed, poppy-seed ail." The oil is free from 'narcotic properties: The purple pappy, is still cultivated for that oil in France, and poppy-seed dis is an article of commerce used as food, both in the pure state and for adulterating "other oils The darllest cultivation of this poppy is even as
Intimations
In some parts of Chine-for instance, Amoy- three-fourths of the population are or ware saul lately, opium amokers. Now it is believ ed that the Chloess Government is genuinely CONFIDENCE determined to pat a stop to the dangerous and enervating indulgence in this narcotic, and the opium-growers: of India will have to limit their output and employ their land and labour for other crops.
It is the fact that the eating of opium (for it is not "smoked" there) does vary little harm in India, since it is not used by a large proportion of the people noì lo axcess. Many persons who have studied the subject main- tain that the widely spread injury caused by opism in China is due to the short time doring which it has been inure there as compared with todia. 11 held that a population after few centuries bepases immune to such poi- sonous but attractive indulgences by the kill- ing out of those who cannot resist excess-and the suggestion is that the simplest way of dealing with such cravings for poison is to let those who have them and cannot resist their demand freely indulge and die, and their stock with them. This is, however, a slow and tedious way of eradicating ap evil tendency, It may perhaps be the only way, and hereafter, when the production by careful and restricted breeding of a sound and healthy population becomes recognised as being part of the duty of the maker and administrators of the Jaw in civilised states, it is not improbable that we shali see something of the kind deliberately put into practice.
THE OPIUM PIPE
and the mode of smoking at present in use in
chinis are very dressed there the pigs and making of lebicco used there or elsewhere. I investigated the matter myself twenty years ago in an opium-den near the London Docks,
saki. Lord Chatham, "is a plant of slow growth. People believe, in things that they
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see, and in a broad sense they are right. THE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION, What is sometimes called blind faith is not faith at all. There must be reason and fact to form a foundation for trust. In regard to a medicine or remedy, for example, people ask. "Has it cured others? Have cases like ming been relieved by it? Is it in harmony, with the truths of modern science, and has it a record above suspicion? If so, it is worthy of confidence; and if I am ever attacked by any of the maladies for which it is commended I shall resort to it in full belief in its power to belp me." On these lines"
the 18th DECEMBER, 1908, commencing at 2.30 P.M.,
A RARE COLLECTION OF EXAMPLES
OF
JAPANESE HIGH ART.
This collection' was 'gathered together by prominent Member of the Art Society of Japan for display in THE ART GALLERY at Tokio on the occasion of the Great Exhibition ranged to take place during 19iz, on account of the postponement of which the collectiop has been brought to this city for sale
Such an opportunity of acquiring objects of Japanese High Art seldom occurs. Os View on Wednesday, the'róth instant." Catalogues will be issued. TEXNSAS asual
* Hongkong, 15th December,, rgo8.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
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WAKPOLE'S PREPARATION. has won its high reputation among medical men, and the people of all civilized countries. They trust it for the same reason that they trust in the familiar laws of nature or in the action of common things. This effective remedy is palatable as honey and contains all the nutritive and curative properties of Pure Cod Liver Oil, 'extracted by us from fresh cod livers, combined with the Compound Syrup of Hypophosphites and the Extracts of Malt and Wild Gherry. It quickly emdicates the poisonous, disease-breeding acids and other toxic matters from the system; regulates and promotes the normal action of the organs, gives vigorous appetite and digestion, and is infallible in Prostration-following Fevers, Anemia, Scrofula, Influenza, Wasting Diseases, Throat and Lung Troubles, etc. Dr. W. A Young, of Canada, says: "Your tasteless pre- A MAGNIFICENT COLLECTION paration of cod liver oil has given me uniformly satisfactory results, my patients having been of all ages." It is a product of
remote in Europe as 7,000 years, for we find under the instruction of, a polite Chinaman. the skill and science of to-day and is successful i The opium pipe has a very narrow cavity after the old style modes of treatment have about one-sixth of an inch wide. The pre-been appealed to in vain. To try it is to trust to "it forever after. I cannot disappoint pared opium, is a condition resembling trea- cle, it smeared on the walls of the cavity with apin, and the pipe is held to a lighted lamp. you and is effective from the first dose. Sold
by chemists everywhere. be flame drawn into the pipe causes the pium to frizzia and give off smoke, but it does not "light" and continue to burn. Each whiff which the smoker lobales bas to be pro- cured by applying the pipe to the lamp.. The
that the Swiss lake dwellers of the Stone Age cultivated-jt, and that the variety they obtain. ed was nearer to the wild Papaver setigerum thas to the modern opium-poppy, Papaver somniferum: How and when it firal' was re- cognised that the Barcotic substance "opium" could be prepared from the juice exuding from the cul capsule is not exactly know, but it is probable that it was not until the early Middle Ages that the poppy was cultivat
ed for the habitusl use of opium as a narcotic-smoke is saseless, and it requires a good deal of patience and several e-smearings of the inside of the pipe before the smoker begins 10 experience pleasant effects of the drug, These consist in the productius of a sense of perfect
From 25 Cents to 30 Dollars oath adulgence, and that its earlier cultivation was, as to some extent is the case at the present day, for the sake the oil contained in the seed, its use in medicine requiring, but n. very small supply. The ancient Greeks were well scquainted with the cultivated pappy. Hamer mentions it, and at a much later period. Theophrastus and Dioscorides do so. They call "ji "mekop," and were aware of the somniferous properties of the sp. Dioscorides, whose wonderful book on plants dates from the
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derived from the sap by the same "opes" and is from that ward that the same opium
come. The Romans cultivated the poppy bacon republic, and mixed its seeds with their flour in making bread. —
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The scent.
The Chinese, having obtained, the seeds; cultivated the opium poppy, and mide opium before the prepared article was imported in asy great quantity from India. There is, of course, no doubt as to the injury which in done to a population by the habitual use of opism. At the same time, there is no one
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who knows anything about medicine and the use of drugs who does not speak of opium THE STORY OF KİNG TARQUIN
with reverence and even affection., Forty years taking the governor of a rebellious provirce ago, of a dinner party where the leading physi. into a poppy field, topping off the headscians of London were present, it was sug of the taller poppies with his stick, and thea gested that they should each write down in turning to his visitor, without a word but order of merit the ter drugs to which they st with a look which said, Thaify the way to tached the greatest value. I heard from one govern is evidence. the very early, cul- who was present that they all put opium in the tivation of the poppy by the Roman Hebrew first place, and that mercury, iodide of potan- writings do not reétion the oğlum pappium, and ipecachuana fo'liwed in that order though it deems to be certain that it has been in the majority of the lists. The value of opium
o Asia Minor for, at least 3000 cultivated
as a medicinal agent is one thing; its deadly years. There is no evidence that the plant effect on those who have become victims to its wae cultivated in more ancient times in Egfp. daily use is another. The origin of the medi Although in Pliny's time the Egyptians used cical use of opium can be traced to Egypt in | GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, the juice of the poppy medicinally. In the Plin time, but beyond that nothing is known. Middle Ages it was, and in qur own day it is, one of the chief objects of cultivation in that country, especially for the manufacture of opium.
4.
The cultivated variety P. somniferum of
the present day differs from the wild P. sed gerum, in having the seed-capruie surmount ed by lea or twelve sigmas (the free ends of the leaves which are united to form the cap sule) instead of by eight di in the wild form." It seems that the introduction of the poppy from the shores of the Mediterranean isto Persia, ladis, and China is due to Arab, traders, and. is coincident with the rise of Mohammedanism, and it is probable that it was valued and cultivated from that time on wards, sot so much for the sake of its seed and oil, as for the carcotic juice, which was made up by Arabiza "confectioners" into a kind of paste, and eaten, as were other vegetable ex-,' tracts such as "bang," from hemp-for the sake of the pleasurable effects produced by its poisonous action on the nervous system. It is certain that the opium poppy dock not occur at all in the wild state in the Middle and Far East. In 1516 opium was alieady as article of irado from India to China: The poppy was cultivatTM. ́ed, and the use of opium known and frequent in India for some five centaries before that date: Probably the cultivation of the plant in China wis not stared until the eighteenth century.
It was the Chinese who hit upon the mode of indulging lá opium by smoking it in à pipe. There is no ere ird, written or pictorial, of ibis practice earlier than 1730, about fifty years be- fare which date (1680) we find the smoking of tobacco represented on Chinese pattery. Very, soon the Chinese were not content to import their opiam from, India but large-areas 'were put under cyllivation with the Indian poppy in China and Manchuris. For a century or more. the export of opiam from India to China ten- tinued and increased as the consumption pl, the -drug increased, the native Chlosse production, not being sufficient to meet the demand. In 1730 and 1796 the Chloese Government issued EDICTS FORBIDDING THE BHOKING
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of opium, and in the last century the efforts of
the Importa the Chinese authorities to proventi tion of Indian opium, whether with a view to suppress a dangerous vice or to favour the (köme-grown article, led to war with England,
Intimations.
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Hongkong, 14th December, 1908.
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THERAPION NO.3
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AUCTION.
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Catalogues will be issued. TERMS OF SALE :—As Customary,
HUGHES & HOUGE,
Government Auctioneers, (1035 Hongkong, ist December, 1908
ONE 18-K GOLD CHRONOMETER WATCH by Sewell, Liverpool.
Catalogues will be issued. TERMS AS tisual.
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