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internally by those who find the smoking habit too costly. The Chinese do not eat opium, neither do they drink an aqueous decoction when taken internally it is usually in the form of pills.
extract is a solution of opium. Internally it is the form of pills.
The attention of the Royal Commission might here be drawn to the morphine injection practice which has recently sprung up. Vide attached printed copies of the papers laid before the Legislative Council of Hong Kong on the 12th September 1893.
The confirmed opium smoker has a craving for his pipe: a small dose of opium or a hypodermic injection of a solution of morphine appears to satisfy that craving; but in time the internal dose by mouth or the hypodermic injections have to be increased.
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