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Observations on the manners and customs of Italy, : with remarks on the vast importance of British commerce on that continent; also, particulars of the wonderful explosion of Mount Vesuvius, taken on the spot at midnight, in June, 1794, when the beautiful and extensive city of Torre del Greco was buried under the blazing river of lava from the mountain; likewise, an account of very many extraordinary cures produced by a preparation of opium, in a variety of obstinate cases, according to the practice in Asia; with many physical remarks collected in Italy, well deserving the attention of most families. / By a gentleman authorised to investigate the commerce of that country with Great-Britain.
Brooke, N.Date: 1798
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M0019333: Bronze Age opium poppy capsule with multiple incisions compared with Cypriot juglet
Date: January 1963Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/172/21
Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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The boiling and testing of opium by Chinese men watched by a European man. Wood-engraving by F. Dadd, c. 1880.
Date: [c. 1880]Reference: 25046i
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Two Chinese opium smokers reclining in a booth watched by a woman with bound feet. Wood-engraving, late 19th century.
Reference: 25059i
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Opium for the masses : a practical guide to growing poppies and making opium / by Jim Hogshire.
Hogshire, JimDate: [1994]
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The fall of the god of money : opium smoking in nineteenth-century China / Keith McMahon.
McMahon, Keith.Date: [2002], ©2002
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Syrup of poppies : poison / Thomas Roper.
Date: [between 1868 and 1876?]
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Two poor Chinese opium smokers. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 19th century.
Reference: 25053i
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Hints on obstetric practice, with illustrations. Part 1 / by John Bremner.
Bremner, John (Writer on business networks)Date: 1849
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Opium addiction / Arthur B. Light [and others].
Date: ©1929-1930
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Chinese opium narcotics : a threat to the survival of the West / by J. H. Turnbull.
Turnbull, J. H.Date: 1971
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Estimated world requirements of narcotic drugs and estimates of world production of opium in 1969.
Date: 1968
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Opium : the illustrated diary of his cure / Jean Cocteau ; translated from the French and with a new introduction by Margaret Crosland.
Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963.Date: [1990], ©1990
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Final report of the Royal Commission on Opium.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Opium.Date: 1895
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An Australian in China : being the narrative of a quiet journey across China to Burma / by George Ernest Morrison.
Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920.Date: 1902
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Report on the international conferences on opium and dangerous drugs, held at Geneva, November, 1924, to February, 1925.
Great Britain. Delegation to the Opium Conference 1924-1925 : Geneva, Switzerland)Date: 1925
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Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de opio quaedam complectens / [Edward Harrison].
Harrison, Edward.Date: 1784
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Opium
Date: 1928Reference: MS.2928
Part of: Holmes, Edward Morell (1843-1930), botanist and lecturer in materia medica
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Secret passions, secret remedies : narcotic drugs in British society, 1820-1930 / Terry M. Parssinen.
Parssinen, Terry M.Date: [1983], ©1983
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Les paradis artificiels : précédé de La pipe d'opium, Le hachich, Le club des hachichins / Charles Baudelaire... Théophile Gautier ; édition établie et présentée par Claude Pichois.
Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867.Date: 1972
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A couple buy some narcotics from an apothecary whose assistant, Death, works with a pestle and mortar in the back room. Coloured lithograph by J. Grandville.
Grandville, J. J., 1803-1847.Reference: 16624i
Part of: Voyage pour l'eternité
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Poison rhymes.
Date: [between 1900 and 1909?]
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La question de l'opium / par Justin Zender.
Zender, Justin.Date: 1929
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British opium. : The sum of thirty guineas, being the premium offered in the year 1822, was this session given to Messrs. Cowley & Staines, of Winslow, Bucks, for cultivating 12 acres of poppies, ...
Date: 1824
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Opium : the diary of a cure / by Jean Cocteau ; [a new translation by Margaret Crosland and Sinclair Road].
Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963.Date: [1957]

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M0019333: Bronze Age opium poppy capsule with multiple incisions compared with Cypriot juglet

The boiling and testing of opium by Chinese men watched by a European man. Wood-engraving by F. Dadd, c. 1880.

Two Chinese opium smokers reclining in a booth watched by a woman with bound feet. Wood-engraving, late 19th century.

Opium for the masses : a practical guide to growing poppies and making opium / by Jim Hogshire.

The fall of the god of money : opium smoking in nineteenth-century China / Keith McMahon.

Syrup of poppies : poison / Thomas Roper.

Two poor Chinese opium smokers. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 19th century.

Hints on obstetric practice, with illustrations. Part 1 / by John Bremner.

Opium addiction / Arthur B. Light [and others].

Chinese opium narcotics : a threat to the survival of the West / by J. H. Turnbull.

Estimated world requirements of narcotic drugs and estimates of world production of opium in 1969.

Opium : the illustrated diary of his cure / Jean Cocteau ; translated from the French and with a new introduction by Margaret Crosland.

Final report of the Royal Commission on Opium.

An Australian in China : being the narrative of a quiet journey across China to Burma / by George Ernest Morrison.

Report on the international conferences on opium and dangerous drugs, held at Geneva, November, 1924, to February, 1925.

Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de opio quaedam complectens / [Edward Harrison].

Opium

Secret passions, secret remedies : narcotic drugs in British society, 1820-1930 / Terry M. Parssinen.

Les paradis artificiels : précédé de La pipe d'opium, Le hachich, Le club des hachichins / Charles Baudelaire... Théophile Gautier ; édition établie et présentée par Claude Pichois.

A couple buy some narcotics from an apothecary whose assistant, Death, works with a pestle and mortar in the back room. Coloured lithograph by J. Grandville.

Poison rhymes.

La question de l'opium / par Justin Zender.

British opium. : The sum of thirty guineas, being the premium offered in the year 1822, was this session given to Messrs. Cowley & Staines, of Winslow, Bucks, for cultivating 12 acres of poppies, ...

Opium : the diary of a cure / by Jean Cocteau ; [a new translation by Margaret Crosland and Sinclair Road].