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1 In B. xix. c. 53.
2 It is probable, Fée says, that Pliny does not intend here to speak of the calyx as understood by modern botanists, but the corolla of the plant. The calyx disappears immediately after the plant has blossomed; and is never employed by medical men at the present day, who confine themselves to the heads or capsules.
3 The variety Album of the Papaver somniferum. See B. xix. c. 53.
4 The variety A. nigrum of the Papaver somniferum of Decandolle.
5 The incisions are made in the capsules, and towards the upper part of the peduncle. The account given by Pliny, Fée remarks, differs but little from that by Kæmpfer, in the early part of last century.
6 Nine in the morning.
7 This plan, Fée thinks, would not be attended with advantage.
8 A name, probably, of Eastern origin, and now universally employed.
9 "Bilbilis" has been suggested.
10 Syrop of white poppies was, till recently, known as sirop of diacodium. Opium is now universally regarded as one of the most important ingredients of the Materia Medica.
11 Poppy-seed, in reality, is not possessed of any soporific qualities whatever. This discovery, however, was only made in the latter part of the last century, by the French chemist, Rosier.
12 "Collyriis."
13 "Lexipyretos," "pepticas," and "cœliacas"—Greek appellations.
14 The type of the cultivated poppy is the Papaver somniferum of Linnæus.
15 This, Fée says, is a matter of doubt.
16 From μήκων, a "poppy." Tournefort has described this kind of opium obtained by decoction; it is held in little esteem.
17 Fée remarks, that this account of the tests of opium is correct in the extreme.
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