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- catalog abstract "Examines how the drinking of laudanum for medical reasons developed and how it became an everyday safeguard against pain, poverty, and boredom. Opium eating was catapulted into fame by the confessions of Thomas De Quincy and insinuated itself into the lives and works of writers such as Louisa May Alcott, Lord Byron, Shelley, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, John Keats, the Bronte's Samuel Taylor Coleridge and many others. Illustrated with photographs, engravings, advertisements, movie stills, pulp magazine and dime novel covers and paraphernalia.".
- catalog contributor b12266640.
- catalog contributor b12266641.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description "Examines how the drinking of laudanum for medical reasons developed and how it became an everyday safeguard against pain, poverty, and boredom. Opium eating was catapulted into fame by the confessions of Thomas De Quincy and insinuated itself into the lives and works of writers such as Louisa May Alcott, Lord Byron, Shelley, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, John Keats, the Bronte's Samuel Taylor Coleridge and many others. Illustrated with photographs, engravings, advertisements, movie stills, pulp magazine and dime novel covers and paraphernalia.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: In the arms of Morpheus -- The search for health: opium's role in the evolution of medicine -- Drink me: laudanum and other tradional opium medicines -- The possessed: morphine -- I like it! I want it! patent medicines from cradle to grave -- Opiomania: criminalization breaks the poppy's shell -- Appendix: opium at the movies.".
- catalog extent "152 p. :".
- catalog identifier "1550548697 (bound)".
- catalog identifier "9781550548693 (bound) :".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Vancouver : Greystone Books,".
- catalog subject "2001 M-855".
- catalog subject "362.29/3/09034 21".
- catalog subject "HV5801 .H62 2001".
- catalog subject "History, 19th Century.".
- catalog subject "Morphine abuse History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Morphine history.".
- catalog subject "Nonprescription Drugs history.".
- catalog subject "Opium abuse History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Opium history.".
- catalog subject "QV 90 H691i 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: In the arms of Morpheus -- The search for health: opium's role in the evolution of medicine -- Drink me: laudanum and other tradional opium medicines -- The possessed: morphine -- I like it! I want it! patent medicines from cradle to grave -- Opiomania: criminalization breaks the poppy's shell -- Appendix: opium at the movies.".
- catalog title "In the arms of Morpheus : the tragic history of laudanum, morphine, and patent medicines / Barbara Hodgson.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".