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Page 378 - The nitric acid, as may be fuppofed, was one of the firft fubftances that occurred to me as fit for my purpofe; for it is known to contain about four parts of vital air, united to one of azote, with a certain proportion of water. Thefe principles can be feparated from each other by the intervention of many other bodies, as chemifts find every day in their operations. I was led, befides, to give a preference, to the nitric acid, from obferying, that it difiblves very completely the refinous bafe of...
Page 430 - TRANSACTIONS of the Society instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, with the Premiums offered in the year 1783.
Page 418 - Opium will be found a greyim fubftance, and fome almoft turning black : it is then to be fcraped off the pods, and, if any, from the leaves, with the edge of a knife or -an inftrument for that purpofe, into pans or pots ; and in a day or two it will be of a proper confiftence to make into a mafs, and to be potted. As foon as you have taken away all the Opium from one fide of the pod, then make incifions on the oppofite fide, and proceed in the fame manner.
Page 418 - ... danger; and it is the cuftom in the Eaft to carry a plate of them to the table, after dinner, with other fruits. I intend this year to keep apart a fmall quantity of Opium from each coloured Poppy, to find out if any one more than another produces the greateft quantity, or of the greateft ftrength ; and mall fave feeds of each, to fow feparately the next fpring.
Page 380 - ... in my liver, had not been the cafe for many months before. I perceive a pain in the back of my head, refembling what I have commonly felt when taking mercury.
Page 417 - ... fo luxuriant, that it will drop from the pod on the leaves underneath. The next day, if the weather...
Page 416 - ... the feeds of which I would advife to be fown the latter end of February, and again about the fecond week in March, in beds three feet and an half wide, well prepared with good rotten dung, and often turned or ploughed, in order to mix it well and have it fine, either in fmall drills, three in each bed, in the manner fallads are fown, and, when about two inches high...
Page 379 - ... to be ufeful. I did not think myfelf warranted to adminifter it to others from fuch imperfect information; but I refolved to take it myfelf; and I thought I was particularly qualified to determine its effects, as I had reafon, for a long time before, to complain of my liver. In September 1793, I began to take the nitric acid. I mixed about a dram of the ftrongeft that I could procure, with a fufficient quantity of water; and I was happy to find, that I could...
Page 419 - ... at once ; and likewife fomething of the rake-kind, fo that the three drills which I have directed to be made in each bed, may be performed at the fame time. By a calculation which I have made, fuppofing one poppy, growing in one fquare foot of earth, and producing only one grain of Opium, more than fifty pounds will be collected from off one ftatute acre...
Page 418 - ... on the oppofite fide, and proceed in the fame manner. The reafon of my not making the incifions all round at the firft, is, that you cannot fo conveniently take away the opium ; but every perfon, upon trial, will be the bed judge.