Culture and preparation of opium in Britain : extract of a letter from John Young, Esq., Surgeon, Edinburgh, ...

  • Young, John (Surgeon, of Edinburgh)
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1821
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    ^ // /As '/i *2*At*nT / / . % AGRICULTURE. 21 N° III. CULTURE AND PREPARATION OF OPIUM IN BRITAIN. Extract of a Letter front John Young, Esq., Surgeon, Edinburgh, on the Culture and Preparation of Opium in Britain, sup¬ plementary to his communication on the same subject inserted in the 36th volume of the Transactions of the Society. Edinburgh, SIR; March 15th, 1820. Since I had the honour to correspond with you on the subject of my communication to your Society respecting my mode of collecting British Opium, and for which I had the honour to receive the Gold Isis Medal, I was last summer engaged in the same experiment, on a larger scale than formerly, and I produced nineteen pounds and a half of opium, twenty-five gallons of poppy oil, and at the rate of 40 bolls of early potatoes, from 129 falls, 18 square yards, being 30 falls less than one acre of ground, by the mode of cultivating communicated to your So¬ ciety, and afterwards more particularly detailed in the 2nd and 3rd Nos. of the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, with this difference, that the gatherers collected the milky juice with their thumbs instead of brushes, which