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Se 5 JAN 12,
OPIUM.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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No. 1.
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[December 14.]
SECTION 1.
Sir,
Colonial Office to Foreign Office.-(Received December 14.)
Downing Street, December 14, 1911. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Harcourt to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 11th December, transmitting a copy of a telegram from Sir Cecil Clementi Smith with regard to the definition of the expression "Preparation of opium."
2. Mr. Harcourt understands that an officinal preparation of opium is one which has a character or composition established or approved by a competent medical authority, and which is therefore kopt prepared by apothecaries for the use of physicians. He assumes that a non-officinal preparation would be a composition such as are usually known as "proprietary medicines.*
3. It appears to Mr. Harcourt that any question as to the percentage of morphia or its compounds, which such preparations (whether officinal or non-officinal) should contain, is one on which the advice of such a body as the Pharmaceutical Society would be of great weight; and he would suggest that if it is desired to frame any definition of the expression "Preparation of opium" which is to take account of the amount of morphia, &c., in the preparation, reference should be made to the Society. I have, &c.
G. V. FIDDES.
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