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, John
Date:
1823
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Credit: 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 ... Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    +1 6 RURAL ECONOMY. N* IF. ENGLISH OPIUM. The premium of Thirty Guineas teas this Session presented to Messrs. Cowley and Staines, Surgeons, of Window, Bucks, for cultivating Four Acres of the White Poppy (Papaver somniferum), and extracting there¬ from, 60 lbs. of solid Opium, equal to the best Turkey Opium. The following communication has been received from the Candidates; and specimens of the Opium, of the Poppy-seed, and of the Oil, together with the implements employed in the cultivation of the plants, and extraction of the Opium, have been placed in the Repository of the Society. SIR; Winslow, Bucks. In consequence of a premium being offered by the Society for Encouraging Arts, Manufactures, and Com¬ merce, for the cultivation of the papaver somnifermn, for opium, we are induced to communicate an account of our experiments on that plant, for the perusal of the Society.