Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1910 — The Poisonous Poppy. [ARTICLE]

The Poisonous Poppy.

In Turkey if a man falls asleep in the neighborhood of a poppy field and the wind flows from the field toward him he becomes narcotized and would die if the country people, who are well acquainted with the circumstances, did not bring him to a well or stream and empty pitcher after pitcher of water on his face and body.