In the arms of Morpheus
the tragic history of laudanum, morphine, and patent medicines
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Publication
2001 - Firefly Books, Buffalo, N.Y, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
38,000 words, Guess
Page Count
152 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveinarmsofmorpheus0000hodg
- ISBN-139781552975404
- ISBN-10155297538X
- ISBN-101552975401
- ISBN-139781552975381
and 7 more
- LibraryThing141096
- Goodreads1787603', '885973
- Library of Congress Control Number2004555553
- OCLC Control Number48190391
- Better World Books9781552975404
- Better World Books9781552975381
- Open LibraryOL3382242M
Classifications
- DDC362.29/3
- LCCHV5816 .H54 2001
- LCCHV5816 .H554 2001
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 Bronts͡, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and many others. Illustrated with photographs, engravings, advertisements, movie stills, pulp magazine and dime novel covers and paraphernalia.
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