Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from China and the Chinese
Great commercial value of opium - Cultivation of the poppy - Exports of Opium from India - What Opium is Preparation of the drug - Opinions on the English monopoly of the trade in it - Ingenious mode of smuggling opium Efforts of Chinese Government to check its importation Proclamation of the Viceroy Wang - Opinion of li-shi-shen on the properties of opium - The worst form of opium smoking - Its introduction to Formosa by the Dutch - Depopulation of the island - Punishments in?icted on opium-smokers Opinions of doctors on the effects of opium-eating or smoking - Chinese prisoners deprived of their usual pipe - The real danger to the poor of indulgence in opium - Evidence of Archibald Little - The Chinese and European pipe contrasted.
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