Harms caused by China's 1906–17 opium suppression intervention

Harms caused by China's 1906-17 opium suppression intervention.

Between 1906 and 1917 China (under the Imperial and then Republican regimes) enacted a highly effective intervention to suppress the production of opium. Evidence from British Foreign Office records suggest that the intervention was centred, in many areas, upon a highly repressive incarnation of law enforcement in which rural populations had their property destroyed, their land confiscated and/...

‏‎suppression of coke formation in thermal cracking by coke inhibitors‎‏

‏‎the main purpose of this research was to:1.develop a coking model for thermal cracking of naphtha.2.study coke inhibition methods using different coke inhibitors.developing a coking model in naphtha cracking reactors requires a suitable model of the thermal cracking reactor based on a reliable kinetic model.to obtain reliable results all these models shall be solved simultaneously.for this pu...

Poisoning by Opium—Death

soon after taking it, she became insensible, and some time after vomited once. Opium is sold here at 5 annas per tolah?a tolah being equal to 3 drachms; she must, therefore, have taken about 30 or 36 grains. He got a local homoeopathic practitioner to attend, her, who gave her only about a tea-spoonful of a mixture every 2 hours, made up of a few drops of a brown liquid, in a lar^e quantity of ...

Opium Poppy: Genetic Upgradation Through Intervention of Plant Breeding Techniques

Was Plotinus influenced by opium?

SOME justification is necessary for adding to the list of suspected opium-takers of the past. The academic game of seizing on certain similarities between the thought of a selected victim and the features supposed to be characteristic of opium dreams long ago became something of a bad habit. In the case of Plotinus (205-270 A.D.), however, grounds for the belief can be found outside his own wri...