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Rh drug called, which was a Greek as well as a Latin word,expreing the ubtance, which we call Opium at preent.

Colchis was famed in all ages for its fertility both in medicinal and poionous plants.

The drugs, with which Medea upplied Jaon, in order to appeae the fury of the bulls, which guarded the golden fleece, are called. by Apollonius,

words, which imply a foothing, or anodyne quality. The preparation itelf is decribed by the ame writer as procured from the root of a plant, which bears a yellow flower, and is about a cubit in height ; and, as it hould eem, the drug was gained by preure, or rather perhaps by inciion, as it is aid to be in form of a. black juice, collected in a hell.

This account bears a great reemblance to Opium; The effects produced, its black colour, audits being collected in a hell, which

was