Turkish Opium For Britain- the USE of Opium in British Medicine, UK, 1943 D17600
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Turkish Opium For Britain- the USE of Opium in British Medicine, UK, 1943
A manufacturing chemist puts a bung into a bottle of tincture of opium in a locked room, somewhere in Britain. Opium is imported from Turkey by the Ministry of Health and is supplied to retail chemists as galenicals, concentrated extracts from which they can make up doctors' prescriptions. It can be supplied as powder or extract and, according to the original caption, is supplied as "tincture of opium, concentrated tincture, liquid extract, soft extract, dried extract or compound tincture with camphor and aniseed". The latter is a paregoric, used for treating coughs. The labels on the bottles are for the chemist 'Stafford Allen and Sons Ltd'.
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