Show OPIUM IX CHINA Tit DltUC WAS JSTKODCCPD INTO I am irinc nv AIUIJS The Chinese Imperial Maritime Til Imlrl1 Cujlonii has just Iutnl i I 1 small I Historical inuifhlet entitle Opium jls torical Sole or Tlic Poppy in China by Dr ElMa the well known frclrolar and mliI < mary of r Peklru The Inijiortanco of the little jirorxfeitiou lit-tle work i sedulously that I demolishes iirojiasateJ the of halo years in this county that opium W 3i Introduced in recent years from India to China Jn KJkliis says that in fact the Arab lo took I to that country In the eighth century nt a time when there was a lluurWiini trade between Canton and the ports of the lIed Sea and the Persian gulf The medtcin al IIr > erUc3 of the drug aru men tone Ina work i > ubll lictl in the tent century Prom this time U was cultivated for these itrojvrtics and from the fifteenth century it appears that the inanuCicturu of native oiiiuru has existed in China aim it Is not oniy 1 nut J on that there lass been both native and foreign e > iium In this country The smokIng opium came in with I the Hnoklng of tuocc Iheseven teentli century Various Ingredients says Dr Kd kins were In various countries mixed witli tobacco t try their effect ef-fect among them being oium The Mauchus tried t jiruhibit the use of tobacco by ejlcti as striugtnt as those ixued ngaln opium but In vain Among the causes of this failure tie writer Includes the love of opium smoking by many In high positions court favorites and others oth-ers whom I would be very difllcuit t punifli Opium smoking began In Formosa and Amoy where to baeco smoking wni first introduced The lirst edict against the practicu was In 172 Opium wa a common product in Yunnan in 17S and in those days this distant province was Cir remote from the inlfuence ofany foreign country wliatever except L liumiah London Timtt |