• A German pharmacist, F.W. Serturner, isolated morphine from opium in 1803, cocaine was isolated from the coca bush in 1855 by a chemist named Edeleano. (narconon.org)
  • Research chemicals Aren't relatively new gr8 chemical products, for a couple of Centuries many of them have been built, as an example, the German pharmacist Serturner managed to make morphine from opium in 1803. (ample-knitters.com)
  • Although he was a close confidant of the Lake School of Poets, and a personal friend for many years of both William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge , de Quincey's wrote in almost total obscurity until the infamous publication of his book Confessions of an English Opium-Eater . (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Thomas de Quincey was an English essayist best known for his Confessions of an English Opium Eater. (rookebooks.com)
  • The term "opiate" is used to designate drugs derived from opium. (apennedpoint.com)
  • Opiates are natural substances derived from the opium poppy plant, like morphine - the "prototypical" opiate. (visualsnowman.com)
  • Morphine is an opiate that comes from the opium poppy, and is in fact the 'daddy' of the family of substances that come from this plant (others include codeine, papaverine, thebaine etc.) [1] . (drugfacts.org.uk)
  • The principal alkaloid in opium and the prototype opiate analgesic and narcotic. (drugfacts.org.uk)
  • The potency of each opioid is determined in relation to morphine, which was the first synthetic opiate, derived directly from opium in 1803 . (serenityatsummit.com)
  • Today, opium alkaloids are used as an analgesic, antitussive (cough suppressant), and antispasmodic agents (smooth muscle relaxant). (martifarm.com)
  • In 1803, Sertürner isolated a crystalline sample of the main constituent alkaloid, morphine, which was later shown to be almost entirely responsible for the analgesic activity of crude opium. (opioids.wiki)
  • Intentional drug discovery from plants began with the isolation between 1803 and 1805 of morphine - an analgesic and sleep-inducing agent - from opium by the German apothecary assistant Friedrich Sertürner , who named this compound after the Greek god of dreams, Morpheus . (buyprescriptionmedicationonlineusa.com)
  • We have used the opium poppy (L. Papaver somniferum) in medicine for thousands of years: its latex or opium, which contains several therapeutic alkaloids, is used to relieve pain. (martifarm.com)
  • Preparations of the opium poppy papaver somniferum have been used for many hundreds of years to relieve pain. (opioids.wiki)
  • In 1817, after years of experience, he left the EIC to join a private enterprise that specialized in one particular commodity - opium poppies. (antiglobalisten.no)
  • Robert Stephenson FRS (16 October 1803 - 12 October 1859) was an early railway engineer. (ncl.ac.uk)
  • Robert Stephenson was born on 16 October 1803, at Willington Quay, east of Newcastle upon Tyne, to George Stephenson and Frances née Henderson, usually known as Fanny. (ncl.ac.uk)
  • Morphine was the first of these, isolated in 1803, followed by codeine in 1832. (apennedpoint.com)
  • Laden within the best-selling, over-the-counter drugs sold by such patent companies as Bayer were the narcotics opium, cocaine, marijuana, and alcohol, just to name a few. (adamjamesjones.com)
  • She became an opium trader sailing between India and Canton, and was broken up near Hong Kong in August 1833. (wikipedia.org)
  • In eastern Asia, however, its use as a stimulant gradually increased and received a powerful impetus since about 1770, by the exportations of opium from India into China. (henriettes-herb.com)
  • Meanwhile, the British East India Company discovered a valuable new commodity: opium. (antiglobalisten.no)
  • Karl did not mention the fact that the 1832 voyage was on an East India Company ship, and the 1833 voyage was on the Jardine Matheson opium smuggling/trading ship "Sylph. (sleuthsayers.org)
  • After a concerted effort spanning several months, Russell eventually chose a more controversial, yet highly profitable route for his new entity, Russell & Co. Informing his partners in Providence of his intent to follow in the steps of the British East India Company, and their wealth-building success with local merchants and Cantonese brokers, he also turned to dealing in opium. (estuarymagazine.com)
  • However, due in part to large outflows of silver from the country as payment for the opium smuggled into China from British India, the economy declined. (nouahsark.com)
  • 1 2019-11-18T17:22:59-05:00 Kate McDonald 306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5f 35 17 Malwa was an alternate site of opium production in India, competing with BEIC product from Patna and Benares. (ncsu.edu)
  • The historical region of Malwa produced an alternate to the East India Company's monopoly opium from Patna and Benares. (ncsu.edu)
  • In 1803, an East Indiaman trade ship came sailing into the Chinese Canton port. (antiglobalisten.no)
  • Instead of docking in Canton, they anchored their opium-loaded trade ships outside the port, and then contracted Chinese smugglers to load the contraband and bring it onshore to distribute it. (antiglobalisten.no)
  • Over time, Parkes became acting Consul in Canton, and in 1856, he began the Second Opium War in true British Imperial style: there was a Chinese ship called the "Arrow", owned by a Chinese, manned by Chinese sailors, under a British flag. (sleuthsayers.org)
  • there is a similar set representing the fall of Canton in 1858 during the second Opium War at the Getty Research Institute. (princeton.edu)
  • It was first remote from opium in 1803 (some sources say 1806) by the The german language pharmacist Farrenheit. (owlrangers.com)
  • Shah Alam held his meaningless title till his death in 1806, his pettiness and appetite for opium and debauchery undented. (ananthk.net)
  • Having annexed Calcutta, an opium-rich region, they realized the great commercial value of the drug for both medicine and recreational use. (antiglobalisten.no)
  • Malwa opium was packaged in cakes, rather than balls, and exported out of Bombay (Mumbai) rather than Calcutta (Kolkata). (ncsu.edu)
  • 1 2019-11-18T17:22:55-05:00 Kate McDonald 306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5f 35 16 Benares (Varanasi) was one of the primary opium growing regions supplying the Calcutta opium market. (bodiesandstructures.org)
  • The strength of opium assorted significantly from batch to batch, rendering it difficult to standardize dose and greatly raising the chance of overdose. (careersfromscience.org)
  • Shi Hou and the others agreed with Wang Mazhi, and travelled with him to Macao where they spent 480 silver taels on 40 bricks of raw opium. (bodiesandstructures.org)
  • After this, the Shi family regularly travelled with Wang to foreign boats near Macao to buy one or two chests of opium, and gave regular (but uncounted) salary to Wang Mazhi and Shi Gui. (bodiesandstructures.org)
  • 1 2019-11-18T17:22:55-05:00 Yakou becomes a smuggling depot, attracting extortionists 35 Shi Hou hires employees to facilitate the opium trade with Big and Little Li at Yakou. (bodiesandstructures.org)
  • 1 2019-11-18T17:22:56-05:00 Chimmo (Shenhu) Bay 29 An opium depot on the China coast located between Xiamen and Quanzhou. (ncsu.edu)
  • 1 2019-11-18T17:22:59-05:00 Lintin 25 A description of Lintin, the primary opium depot in the Pearl River Delta. (bodiesandstructures.org)
  • The word "opium" is derived from the Greek word for juice, because the juice of the poppy flower was the original source of opium. (apennedpoint.com)
  • Night-dew promotes the flow of juice and increases the yield, but the opium is darker than when the night is dry. (henriettes-herb.com)
  • Next, a plain black and white illustration of a flower backdropping a bottle of Pantopon 'Roche,' above the headline, "Injectable Whole Opium - From the Juice of the Poppy. (adamjamesjones.com)
  • Britain launches the second Opium war against China. (npg.org.uk)
  • These were a series of conflicts between China and Western powers, primarily Britain, over trade imbalances, opium smuggling, and Chinese sovereignty. (19thcentury.us)
  • I talked a while back about the opium trade in China, run by Western "trading companies" like Jardine-Matheson and Russell & Company, who smuggled and sold opium (then illegal) all up and down the coast and rivers of 19th century China. (sleuthsayers.org)
  • Opioids have already been used to take care of pain for more than 5,000 years.1 Prior to the 19th hundred years, the drug of preference was opium, the resin released through the seed pods from the opium poppy. (careersfromscience.org)
  • It took its current name when Empress Dowager Cixi, in a controversial action, used some money earmarked for the navy and rebuilt the park, which had been destroyed during the second Opium War in the mid-19th century. (afar.com)
  • These market differences could be very significant to Jardine-Matheson's profit margins, and opium captains like John Rees were constantly working to take advantage of this for their firm. (bodiesandstructures.org)
  • The extraction of opium for drug use far precedes ideas about why and how these substances actually work - that there are opioid receptors and natural opioids produced within the body. (visualsnowman.com)
  • Upon repacking, the seeds of some Rumex species are strewn between the opium cakes, in order to prevent their agglutinating together. (henriettes-herb.com)
  • While few reminders remain of its past glory days of opium trade activity here today, this region makes for an enjoyable excursion. (doubletakesblog.com)
  • With the ongoing geopolitical shift to the East, now accelerated by the growing lack of trust in Western institutions, the United States sadly in its own years of humiliation, drug abuse, division and economic crisis, the China Opium story is worth revisiting. (antiglobalisten.no)
  • Humiliation of China: During the Opium wars, Western drug lords produced a system that led to the total humiliation and subjugation of China. (antiglobalisten.no)
  • Back in China, though, things were nowhere near as rosy as Gutzlaff proclaimed: Most of his native Chinese "missionaries" were criminals and/or opium addicts who faked their conversion figures, taking the Chinese Bibles that Gutzlaff had given them to distribute and selling them back to Gutzlaff's own printer, who then resold them to him. (sleuthsayers.org)
  • During his reign, he prosecuted Heshen (和珅) (the corrupt favourite of Qianlong) and attempted to restore the state and curb the smuggling of opium inside China. (nouahsark.com)
  • Both Rees and his Chinese partners were therefore trying to take advantage of price discrepancies between different opium markets on the China coast. (ncsu.edu)
  • The Chinese have carefully forged a long term strategy to avoid being subjected to another hundred years of humiliation, and seem bent on not accepting accept a repeat of the Opium wars. (antiglobalisten.no)
  • And how that led to two Opium Wars, which eventually forced the Chinese (who lost) to make opium legal. (sleuthsayers.org)
  • Once known for opium trading activities to finance civil wars, government guerrillas, and corrupt officials, it now sees far less cultivation or trafficking of illicit drugs in this part of Southeast Asia compared with years past. (doubletakesblog.com)
  • Morphine quickly replaced opium as a cure-all recommended by doctors, as well as its popularity as a fun drug. (owlrangers.com)
  • This man of true genius was born in Dublin in 1803, and died in that city at the comparatively early age of forty-six. (google.es)
  • Egyptian (Thebaïc) opium is recorded as early as the sixth century. (henriettes-herb.com)
  • A small opium museum serves as the primary draw, while nearby Wat Phrathat Doi Pu Khao features ancient temple ruins from as early as the 14th century - offering stunning panoramic views across three countries. (doubletakesblog.com)
  • Examples as early as the seventeenth century survive and famous German toymaker Georg Hieronymous Bestelmeier advertised elaborate, expensive sets in his enormous 1803 catalogue. (princeton.edu)
  • The above quote from Captain Rees contextualizes the place of Malwa in the Shenhu Bay opium market during 1836. (ncsu.edu)
  • Page 246 - Now opium, by greatly increasing the activity of the mind, generally increases, of necessity, that particular mode of its activity by which we are able to construct out of the raw material of organic sound an elaborate intellectual pleasure. (google.la)
  • Here, two poor Chinese opium smokers. (antiglobalisten.no)
  • Harry stayed with them from age 13 to adulthood, learning fluent Chinese, and accompanying his uncle on many of his travels, including the signing of the peace treaty for the First Opium War. (sleuthsayers.org)
  • Also worth seeing is the Hall of Opium Museum which offers an insightful account of poppy growing and production as well as paraphernalia used for consumption of drugs such as video footage and mock-ups of user profiles. (doubletakesblog.com)
  • In the northwestern provinces of Asia Minor, opium cultivation is in the hands of small holders of land, owing to the scarcity of hired labor. (henriettes-herb.com)
  • It was also the year that the First Opium War began, and Gutzlaff translated for the British throughout, assisted at the negotiations for the peace treaty, and got an official government position afterwards for his trouble. (sleuthsayers.org)
  • The value of each year's crop of opium varied year to year, place to place, depending on slight differences in taste, weight, etc. (bodiesandstructures.org)
  • Following British triumph over the Marathas (1803), he immediately groveled to the new masters. (ananthk.net)
  • He worked for both as a translator, and while he said he was opposed to the use of opium, he also said that he saw this (distributing Bibles as the opium was being traded) as a great opportunity to spread the gospel. (sleuthsayers.org)