A REPUTED ANTI-OPIUM PLANT

Opium

of opium. Indeed, there can be few (if any) officials in authority, either in India or China, having, or who could be reasonably expected to possess, more than a very general impression regarding the subject. Yet, in many districts in India, the use of opium is as common as in China itself. On the other hand, there are numerous medical officers, who, from personal experience and observation, of...

Opium Poppy: Genetic Upgradation Through Intervention of Plant Breeding Techniques

The pro-heroin effects of anti-opium laws in Asia.

Over 25 years anti-opium laws were enacted by three Asian governments in countries where opium use was traditional. Within months, heroin use suddenly appeared; and within a decade, heroin addiction surpassed opium addiction. The laws led to (1) increased price of narcotic drugs, (2) a heroin "industry," (3) corruption of the law enforcement system, and (4) major health problems involving paren...

Experiments on Cobra Poison and on a Reputed Antidote

antidote was repeated several times, ?without any apparent effect, and the rabbit died before the other which had no antidote. The second rabbit, -when oil the point of death, quite unconscious, and with feeble convulsive movements commencing, had its trachea opened and artificial respiration applied. There was no return of consciousness or of voluntury movement ; the tail was observed to move,...

Opium-Poisoning in a Child

?''IK,?Allarakhi, a Mahomedan female child, aged four months, was brought to Laheria Serai Hospital on the 1st Aiignst 1905, with the following history The mother of the child, a day-labourer, used to go to her work every morning giving the child a little opium to put her to sleep for a longer period than usual. On the morning of the 1st August l'tH)5, the child was given an overdose. When the ...