Turkish Opium For Britain- the USE of Opium in British Medicine, UK, 1943 A worker at an opium processing laboratory takes a bottle of morphine hydrochloride from the store. She is wearing a mask to prevent any inhalation of the powder as she works. The opium from which this morphine and its allied salts have been extracted was imported from Turkey by the Ministry of Health. According to the original caption: 'Extraction processes are secret. The final products are morphine; codeine with its salts, used for analgesic tablets; ethyl morphine and diamorphine, both products of morphine; papaverin
Turkish Opium For Britain- the USE of Opium in British Medicine, UK, 1943 A worker at an opium processing laboratory takes a bottle of morphine hydrochloride from the store. She is wearing a mask to prevent any inhalation of the powder as she works. The opium from which this morphine and its allied salts have been extracted was imported from Turkey by the Ministry of Health. According to the original caption: 'Extraction processes are secret. The final products are morphine; codeine with its salts, used for analgesic tablets; ethyl morphine and diamorphine, both products of morphine; papaverine, used for asthma and sore throats. Products are kept behind a locked door. A warning bell rings whenever the door is opened. Names of all workers are registered with the British Home Office'.
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