The truth about opium : $b being a refutation of the fallacies of the Anti-Opium Society and a defence of the Indo-China opium trade — John Shaqi
The truth about opium : $b being a refutation of the fallacies of the Anti-Opium Society and a defence of the Indo-China opium tradeBrereton, William H.
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The truth about opium : $b being a refutation of the fallacies of the Anti-Opium Society and a defence of the Indo-China opium trade
Brereton, William H.
China -- Commerce -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; China -- Commerce -- India -- History -- 19th century; Great Britain -- Commerce -- China -- History -- 19th century; India -- Commerce -- China -- History -- 19th century; Opium abuse; Opium trade -- China -- History -- 19th century; Op
Third and fifth fallacies upon which the members of the Anti-Opium Society
and its supporters are misled.--Opium eating and Opium smoking contrasted
with spirit drinking.--Valuable curative properties of Opium.--Spirit
drinking produces organic and incurable diseases, is a fruitful cause of
insanity, and leads to ruin and destruction.--The like effects admittedly
not due to Opium.--Opium eating and Opium smoking totally distinct.--
Whatever the effects of Opium eating, Opium smoking perfectly innocuous.--
Anti-Opium advocates cunningly try to mix the two together.--Disingenuous
conduct in this respect of the Rev. Storrs Turner--Mr. Turner so great an
enthusiast as not to be able to see the difference.--Testimony of Dr.
Eatwell as to the use of Opium.--Difference between Opium eating and
Opium smoking explained in the case of tobacco smoking.--Tobacco taken
internally a deadly poison, harmless when smoked.--Medical testimony as to
the poisonous quality of tobacco and its alkaloid, nicotine.--Opium a
valuable medicine, without any known substitute.--Anti-Tobacco Smoking
Society, once formed the same as the Anti-Opium Society, put down by the
common sense of the community, the like fate awaits the Anti-Opium
Society.--Testimony of Dr. Sir George Birdwood, Surgeon-General Moore, Sir
Benjamin Brodie, Dr. Ayres, and W. Brend, M.R.C.S., as to Opium.--Small
quantity of Indian Opium imported into China.--Enormous amount of spirits
consumed in the United Kingdom.--Anti-Opium Society blind to the latter,
energetic as to the former a purely sentimental grievance.--Fallacy of
Anti-Opium Society that supply creates demand refuted and exposed.--
Remaining fallacies refuted.--Effects of suppression of Indo-China Opium
trade.--Missionaries detested in China.--Indian Opium welcomed.--Saying of
Prince Kung.--Treaty of Tientsin explained and defended.--Erroneous
notions of the Protestant Missionaries as to that treaty.--Abused by
Missionaries, yet the treaty the Missionaries only charter.--Testimony of
H. N. Lay and Lawrence Olyphant.--Spurious copy of De Quincey's
"Confessions of an Opium Eater," published by Anti-Opium people.--
Testimony of Don Sinibaldo de Mas, formerly Spanish Minister in China, a
powerful defence of the Indo-China Opium trade.--Policy of the Indian
Government as regards Opium wisest and best.--Alleged proposal of Lord
Lawrence to alter that policy.--Fallacy involved in such proposal
exposed.--Abrogation of Indo-Opium trade injurious if not destructive to
the spread of the Gospel in China.--False charge of smuggling by British
merchants in China exposed and refuted.--Un-English policy of the
Anti-Opium Society exposed.--Recapitulation.--Benevolence of the British
public.--Necessity for seeing that it is not diverted into worthless
channels.--Anti-Opium Society, mischievous, presenting a melancholy record
of energies wasted, talents misapplied, wealth uselessly squandered,
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