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REPORT BY MR. DAVID HOOPER, GOVERNMENT QUINOLOGIST, MADRAS. 205
Allahabad majum
was a whitish soft mass of peculiar ghee-like odour, and
containing
vegetable debris similar to that from ganja. It contained 4 per
cent. of ghee and 1.3 per cent.
of vegetable matter insoluble in water. There was no trace of
alkaloid present.
Benares majum was
in cakes of the same colour and odour, and was nearly pure
sugar.
It contained 1.4 per cent. of fat, and 1 per cent. of leafy
portions; no foreign seeds were
discovered and no alkaloid could be detected.
Bombay majum was
in the form of yellow-coloured cakes flavoured with spice, and
with
very little ganja. It contained 4.9 per cent. of ghee soluble in
ether, and 2.7 per cent. of
brown vegetable matter referable to cloves, cassia and saffron. No
alkaloid was present.
Amballa majum was
in opaque white masses with a slight greenish tinge and odour
of
ghee. It contained 7.3 per cent. of ghee soluble in ether, and no
vegetable structures of a
green colour as in other samples. No alkaloid was found.
Hyderabad majum
was in the form of square cakes covered on one side with silvered
paper.
One kind was white and contained 2.3 per cent. of ghee, the other
was coloured yellow with
saffron and contained only 1.2 per cent. No seeds or vegetable
structures were observed.
This had been doubtless strained through a cloth before being
boiled down. With these
samples came a mixture, wrapped up in a leaf, of powdered raisins
and white sugar. When this
was examined, several other substances were found, such as pieces
of almonds, seeds of various
kinds, stamens of some plant, some cereal grains and spice. The
little black seeds were further
examined microscopically and were found to consist of two kinds,
one with three angles,
probably from a polygonaceous plant, and the others were, in very
small quantity, the seeds
of dhatura. This is the only sample in which I have found dhatura
seed present.
Coimbatore, Ootacamund
and Tanjore majums were black soft masses of a
liquorice-like
odour and sweet taste. An analysis was not attempted of either
sample, but they were each
broken down with water, and among the insoluble portion a search
was made for dhatura
seeds, nux vomica, etc., but without success. The amount of leafy
organs, such as would come
from the ganja, was in a very small proportion. In Ootacamund there
is a black majum used
for adults, and a white kind given to children, but as sold in the
ganja-shop they are not very
powerful preparations.
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