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Excerpt from Memoire sur l'Opium Indigene
Les experiences de M. Benard ont ete faites a Amiens, du 1 au 16 aout (elles auraient pu commencer des le 20 juil let). En travaillant 2 a 5 heures par jour il a incise en 14 heures capsules et recueilli 109 grammes de suc opiace. Pendant cinq jours (de douze heures) un ouvrier l'a remplace et incise capsules sur lesquelles il a ramasse 522. Grammes seulement de ce meme suc. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
