The medical use, cultural impact and complex legacy of opium is uncovered in striking artwork and rare books.
Works from the collections
376 works
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Opium and the people : opiate use and drug control policy in nineteenth and early twentieth century England / Virginia Berridge.
Berridge, Virginia.Date: 1999- Books
Opiologia; ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Opiums und seiner Wirkstoffe / [Otto Zekert].
Zekert, Otto, 1893-1968.Date: [1956]
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Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de opio quaedam complectens / [Edward Harrison].
Harrison, Edward, 1759-1838.Date: 1784
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A philosophical and statistical history of the inventions and customes of ancient and modern nations in the manufacture and use of inebriating liquors : with the present practice of distillation in all its varieties: together with an extensive illustration of the consumption and effects of opium, and other stimulants used in the East, as substitutes for wine and spirits / By Samuel Morewood.
Morewood, Samuel.Date: 1838- Books
Drugs, politics, and diplomacy : the international connection / edited by Luiz R.S. Simmons, Abdul A. Said.
Date: 1974