Both Uses of
opium
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- It is a mixture of excellent opium, which I fetched myself from Canton in order to have it pure, and the best hashish which grows in the East—that is, between the Tigris and the Euphrates.†
Chpt 39-40
- With opium, belladonna, brucaea, snake-wood, and the cherry-laurel, they put to sleep all who stand in their way.†
Chpt 51-52 *
Definition:
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(opium) an addictive narcotic extracted from seed capsules of the opium poppy