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Lot n° 240
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DRUGS. POPPY OILS. 1774. Letters Patent from the King, order - Lot 240
DRUGS. POPPY OILS. 1774. Letters Patent from the King, ordering the free trade of poppy oils, known as “carnation oils.” Issued at Versailles on Dec. 20, 1774. Printed, 4 pp., in-4°—header: “...granting permission to grocers, stallholders, greasers, and others..., who have the right to bring to Paris, sell, and dispense olive oil and other kinds of oils, ... , to sell and dispense poppy seed oil, known as carnation oil, pure and unblended,...” “... there is no harm in daily consumption in the provinces of Beaujolais, Picardy, Franche-Comté, Alsace, and Flanders, ..., and it follows that this oil contains nothing narcotic or harmful to health ..”
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