India / China: The 'Mixing Room' in a Patna opium factory with opium balls being prepared for use in the China trade. Lithograph, W. S. Sherwell, c. 1850

'In the Mixing Room, which otherwise looks like a somewhat spartan bathhouse, the contents of the earthen pans are thrown into vats and stirred with blind rakes until the whole mass becomes a homogeneous paste'.

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