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Red pottery bowl of Jambi poison, South America, 1880-1930

Red pottery bowl of Jambi poison

1880-1930
Circular glass container with lid, containing some pieces of unidentified mineral rock, no provenance details, container foreign, 1870-1930

Circular glass container with lid

1870-1930
Clear glass specimen jar with glass domed cap sealed to the jar and small paper label. To contain apporximately 10 ounces of narcotine, an alkaloid obtained from opium. It has a midly depressant action upon the cerebral hemispheres. Its effect is to that of morphine on the sensory cells but is much less marked. Like papaverine it relaxes the tone of plain muscle.

jar; controlled drug; opium

1851-1920
Clear glass, circle based bottle with domed lid, sealed and paper label. To contain approximately 6 ounces of meconic acid crystals, crystallised twice from hydrochloric acid.

jar; controlled drug; opium

1851-1920