. Plants and their uses; an introduction to botany. Botany; Botany, Economic. mi -MEDICINAL AND POISONOUS PLANTS Out of the large number of drugs consisting of or containing poisonous alkaloids the few following may l:)e taken as familiar examples: opium, tobacco, coca, atropine, quinine, strychnine, and aconite. Opium is the dried milky juice which flows from wounds made in the seed-pods of the opium pojjpy (Fig. 172). It. Fig. 17l', I.—Opium P'|||||.^" iPapurrr Kuiniiifiriini, l'ii\>]iy Fainilx-, Pnparcr- ncea'). Flowering and fruiting to]). (Baillon.)—.\n annual about 1 m. tall; lea
. Plants and their uses; an introduction to botany. Botany; Botany, Economic. mi -MEDICINAL AND POISONOUS PLANTS Out of the large number of drugs consisting of or containing poisonous alkaloids the few following may l:)e taken as familiar examples: opium, tobacco, coca, atropine, quinine, strychnine, and aconite. Opium is the dried milky juice which flows from wounds made in the seed-pods of the opium pojjpy (Fig. 172). It. Fig. 17l', I.—Opium P'|||||.^" iPapurrr Kuiniiifiriini, l'ii\>]iy Fainilx-, Pnparcr- ncea'). Flowering and fruiting to]). (Baillon.)—.\n annual about 1 m. tall; leaves pale Kreen; white, red. or puriilish: frnit dry, smooth. Native home, Mediterran(>an region. has been foimd lo I'ontain twenty different alkaloids. Of these morphine (('lyHi^iNO;,) is the most important. The chief uses of opium in medicine are to spasm, relieve pain, and induce sleep. Among various oriental peoples large quantities are cdnsuincd by smoking and in other ways as an. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Sargent, Frederick Leroy, 1863-. New York, H. Holt and Company
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