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encouragement upon cultivators to increase the cultivation. Chinese do take opium manufactured in their own country, but they will never leave the habit of consuming opium to which they have been subjected.
(12.) There has been no revenue in our city and therefore we cannot describe anything as (13.) We do not know if there is any European subject who have been accustomed to opium; we cannot say why not, but it may be imagined that there has been no cultivation of this drug in Europe and the vast spread of education and therefore they may not have been habituated to it.
(14.) We do not find out the origin of the common users of opium; they use it constantly, more particularly at leisure. Also, there is a firm belief among them that opium is a remedy against Malaria, diarrhoea, dysentery as well as similar sicknesses originated in the marshy places.
(15.) Perhaps there may be a rare case in which a habituated opium consumer desires to leave this habit.
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