Excerpt from The American Journal of Pharmacy, 1869, Vol. 41 On examining a late purchase of Opium, I noticed, on breaking open one of the' larger pieces, that it was much less tenacious or adhesive than Opium usually is when containing the amount of moisture generally found in it. Although having much more of the fragments of poppy cap sules and leaves mixed with it than a good article should, yet this would not account for the peculiar brittleness: or want of tenacity in the Opium, and it was evident that the drug was adulterated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.