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Drugs - Physiological effect

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Drugs
Pharmacology

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Images from the collections

Images about Drugs - Physiological effect

5 images from works
  • Chinese opium smokers in a saloon experiencing various effects of the drug. Tinted lithograph, c. 1866, after T. Allom.
  • An opium den in London's East End with smokers lying on wooden bunks and slouching by the fire. Wood-engraving by W. B. Murray, c. 1880.
  • Chinese opium smokers in a saloon experiencing various effects of the drug. Engraving by G. Paterson, 1843, after T. Allom.
  • An opium den in London's East End with men lying on wooden bunks as a smoker enters. Wood-engraving, c. 1880, after J. C. Dollman.
  • Chinese opium smokers in a saloon experiencing various effects of the drug. Engraving by G. Paterson, 1843, after T. Allom.

Works from the collections

21 works

    • Books

    Drugs demystified : drug education / Helen Nowlis.

    Helen H. Nowlis | Date: 1975
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    Special needs and drug education / Richard Ives.

    Ives, Richard | Date: [2005]
    • Books

    Pure murder : a book about drug use / edited by Noreen O'Donohue and Sue Richardson.

    | Date: 1984
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    An inquiry into the physiological and medicinal properties of the Aconitum Napellus : to which are added observations on several other species of aconitum / by Alexander Fleming.

    Alexander Fleming | Date: 1845
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    Your everyday drugs / William Breckon.

    Breckon, William. | Date: 1978
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Related topics

Opium
Smoking
Smoking paraphernalia
Drug paraphernalia
Opium abuse
Hotels
Bars (Drinking establishments)
Taverns (Inns)
Drug Users
Drug abuse

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