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The white poppy : a history of opium / J.M. Scott.
Scott, J. M. (James Maurice), 1906-1986.Date: 1969- Digital Images
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Papaver somniferum L. Papaveraceae Opium Poppy Distribution: Asia minor, but has been dated to 5000BC in Spanish caves. Now grows almost everywhere. The oldest medicine in continuous use, described in the Ebers' papyrus (1550 BC), called Meconium, Laudanum, Paregoric and syrup of poppies. Culpeper (1650) on Meconium '...the juyce of English Poppies boyled till it be thick' and 'I am of the opinion that Opium is nothing else but the juyce of poppies growing in hotter countries, for such Opium as Authors talk of comes from Utopia.[he means an imaginary land, I suspect]’]. He cautions 'Syrups of Poppies provoke sleep, but in that I desire they may be used with a great deal of caution and wariness...' and warns in particular about giving syrup of poppies to children to get them to sleep. The alkaloids in the sap include: Morphine 12% - affects ?-opioid receptors in the brain and causes happiness, sleepiness, pain relief, suppresses cough and causes constipation. Codeine 3% – mild opiate actions – converted to morphine in the body. Papaverine, relaxes smooth muscle spasm in arteries of heart and brain, and also for intestinal spasm, migraine and erectile dysfunction. Not analgesic. Thebaine mildly analgesic, stimulatory, is made into oxycodone and oxymorphone which are analgesics, and naloxone for treatment of opiate overdose – ?-opioid receptor competitive antagonist – it displaces morphine from ?-opioid receptors, and constipation caused by opiates. Protopine – analgesic, antihistamine so relieves pain of inflammation. Noscapine – anti-tussive (anti-cough). In 2006 the world production of opium was 6,610 metric tons, in 1906 it was over 30,000 tons when 25% of Chinese males were regular users. The Opium wars of the end of the 19th century were caused by Britain selling huge quantities of Opium to China to restore the balance of payments deficit. Laudanum: 10mg of morphine (as opium) per ml. Paregoric: camphorated opium tincture. 0.4mg morphine per ml. Gee’s Linctus: up to 60 mg in a bottle. J Collis Browne’s chlorodyne: cannabis, morphine, alcohol etc. Kaolin and Morph. - up to 60 mg in a bottle. Dover’s Powders – contained Ipecacuana and morphine. Heroin is made from morphine, but converted back into morphine in the body (Oakeley, 2012). One gram of poppy seeds contains 0.250mgm of morphine, and while one poppy seed bagel will make a urine test positive for morphine for a week, one would need 30-40 bagels to have any discernible effect. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Digital Images
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Papaver somniferum L. Papaveraceae Opium Poppy Distribution: Asia minor, but has been dated to 5000BC in Spanish caves. Now grows almost everywhere. The oldest medicine in continuous use, described in the Ebers' papyrus (1550 BC), called Meconium, Laudanum, Paregoric and syrup of poppies. Culpeper (1650) on Meconium '...the juyce of English Poppies boyled till it be thick' and 'I am of the opinion that Opium is nothing else but the juyce of poppies growing in hotter countries, for such Opium as Authors talk of comes from Utopia [he means an imaginary land, I suspect]’. He cautions 'Syrups of Poppies provoke sleep, but in that I desire they may be used with a great deal of caution and wariness...' and warns in particular about giving syrup of poppies to children to get them to sleep. The alkaloids in the sap include: Morphine 12% - affects ?-opioid receptors in the brain and causes happiness, sleepiness, pain relief, suppresses cough and causes constipation. Codeine 3% – mild opiate actions – converted to morphine in the body. Papaverine, relaxes smooth muscle spasm in arteries of heart and brain, and also for intestinal spasm, migraine and erectile dysfunction. Not analgesic. Thebaine mildly analgesic, stimulatory, is made into oxycodone and oxymorphone which are analgesics, and naloxone for treatment of opiate overdose – ?-opioid receptor competitive antagonist – it displaces morphine from ?-opioid receptors, and reverses the constipation caused by opiates. Protopine – analgesic, antihistamine so relieves pain of inflammation. Noscapine – anti-tussive (anti-cough). In 2006 the world production of opium was 6,610 metric tons, in 1906 it was over 30,000 tons when 25% of Chinese males were regular users. The Opium wars of the end of the 19th century were caused by Britain selling huge quantities of Opium to China to restore the balance of payments deficit. Laudanum: 10mg of morphine (as opium) per ml. Paregoric: camphorated opium tincture. 0.4mg morphine per ml. Gee’s Linctus: up to 60 mg in a bottle. J Collis Browne’s chlorodyne: cannabis, morphine, alcohol etc. Kaolin and Morph. - up to 60 mg in a bottle. Dover’s Powders – contained Ipecacuana and morphine. Heroin is made from morphine, but converted back into morphine in the body (Oakeley, 2012). One gram of poppy seeds contains 0.250mgm of morphine, and while one poppy seed bagel will make a urine test positive for morphine for a week, one would need 30-40 bagels to have any discernible effect. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Books
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On the trail of the opium poppy : a narrative of travel in the chief opium-producing provinces of China / by Sir Alexander Hosie.
Hosie, Alexander, Sir, 1853-1925.Date: [pref. 1914]- Books
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English opium. : The premium of thirty guineas was this Session presented to Messrs. Cowley and Staines, surgeons, of Winslow, Bucks, for cultivating four acres of the white poppy ...
Cowley, JohnDate: 1823- Books
The opium poppy in Hellenistic and Roman medicine / John Scarborough.
Scarborough, John.- Books
On the trail of the ancient opium poppy / Mark David Merlin.
Merlin, Mark David.Date: [1984], ©1984- Archives and manuscripts
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M0005915: Papaver somniferum (opium poppy), from Bentley and Trimen: Medicinal plants (1880)
Date: 17 November 1938Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/49/19Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Digital Images
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Poppy seed (Papaver somniferum)
Lauren Holden- Archives and manuscripts
M0008576: Cultivation of opium
Date: April 1942Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/75/1Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
Milk of paradise : a history of opium / Lucy Inglis.
Inglis, LucyDate: 2018- Books
The opium debate and Chinese exclusion laws in the nineteenth-century American West / Diana L. Ahmad.
Ahmad, Diana L., 1953-Date: [2007], ©2007- Pictures
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A skeletal hand offering opium poppies to a living hand. Colour lithograph after S. Smirnov, 1987.
Smirnov, S.Date: 1987 (Reference: 541605i- Books
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British opium. : The sum of thirty guineas, being the premium offered in the year 1822, was this session given to Messrs. Cowley & Staines, of Winslow, Bucks, for cultivating 12 acres of poppies, ...
Date: 1824- Books
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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- Books
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English opium. : The sum of thirty guineas, being the premium offered, was this session given to Messrs. Cowley & Staines, of Winslow, Bucks, for 143 pounds of opium ...
Date: 1823- Books
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English opium. : The large silver medal was this Session given to J. W. Jeston, Esq. Surgeon, of Henley on Thames, for his improvements in the method of collecting English opium. ...
Jeston, J.W. (Surgeon)Date: 1823- Books
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Culture and preparation of opium in Britain : extract of a letter from John Young, Esq., Surgeon, Edinburgh, ...
Young, John (Surgeon, of Edinburgh)Date: 1821- Books
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Paper in manufactures : The gold medal, or fifty guineas, being the premium offered for preparing the greatest quantity, not less than twenty pounds weight, of opium, ... was this Session adjudged to Mr. Thomas Jones, of Fish-Street-Hill, ...
Jones, Thomas, of Fish-Street-Hill, London.Date: 1800- Pictures
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The implements used by Mr. Young in his experiments to collect opium in Scotland. Engraving by A. W. Warren, c. 1819, after W. Newton.
Newton, W.Date: 1819Reference: 25045i- Pictures
Black opium poppies that turn into gravemarkers in the form of crosses; representing death from heroin addiction. Lithograph by A. Pągowski, 1987.
Pągowski, Andrzej, 1953-Date: [1987?]Reference: 646388i- Books
The American new dispensatory. Containing general principles of pharmaceutic chemistry. Pharmaceutic operations. Chemical analysis of the articles of materia medica. Materia medica, including several new and valuable articles, the production of the United States. Preparations and compositions. With an appendix, containing medical prescriptions. The nature and medical uses of the gases. Medical electricity. Galvanism. An abridgment of Dr. Currie's Reports on the use of water. The cultivation of the poppy plant, and the method of preparing opium. And several useful tables / The whole compiled from the most approved authors, both European and American.
Thacher, James, 1754-1844.Date: 1810- Books
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The American new dispensatory : Containing general principles of pharmaceutic chemistry; chemical analysis of the articles of materia medica; pharmaceutic operations; materia medica, including several new and valuable articles, the production of the United States; preparations and compositions. With an appendix, containing an account of mineral waters; medical prescriptions; the nature and medical uses of the gases; medical electricity; galvanism; an abridgment of Dr. Currie's reports on the use of water; the cultivation of the poppy plant, and the method of preparing opium ... The whole compiled from the most approved authors, both European and American.
Thacher, James, 1754-1844.Date: 1817- Books
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The American new dispensatory : Containing general principles of pharmaceutic chemistry; chemical analysis of the articles of materia medica; pharmaceutic operations; materia medica, including several new and valuable articles, the production of the United States; preparations and compositions. With an appendix, containing an account of mineral waters; medical prescriptions; the nature and medical uses of the gases; medical electricity; galvanism; an abridgment of Dr. Currie's reports on the use of water; the cultivation of the poppy plant, and the method of preparing opium ... The whole compiled from the most approved authors, both European and American.
Thacher, James, 1754-1844.Date: [1813]- Books
The American new dispensatory. Containing general principles of pharmaceutic chemistry. Chemical analysis of the articles of materia medica. Pharmaceutic operations. Materia medica, including several new and valuable articles, the production of the United States. Preparations and compositions. With an appendix, containing an account of mineral waters. Medical prescriptions. The nature and medical uses of the gases. Medical electricity. Galvanism. An abridgment of Dr. Currie's reports on the use of water. The cultivation of the poppy plant, and the method of preparing opium. And several useful tables. The whole compiled from the most approved authors, both European and American / By James Thacher.
Thacher, James, 1754-1844Date: [1813]