Essays on Opium

Opium History of Opium Opium is a narcotic drug prepared from the succus of the opium poppy, Pa paver somniferum, a plant probably indigenous in the south of Europe and western Asia, but now so widely cultivated that its original habitat is uncertain. The medicinal properties of the succus have been recognized from a very early period. It was know to Theophrastus and appears in his time to have consisted of an extract of the whole plant, since Dioscorides, close to A.D. 77, draws a distinction between it and an extract of the entire herb derived from the capsules alone.

From the 1st to the 12th speed of light the opium of Asia Minor appears to have been the just kind known in commerce. In the 13th century opium is mentioned by Simon Januensis, physician to Pope Nicholas IV., while meconium was still in use. In the 16th century opium is mentioned by Pyres (1516) as a production...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay

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