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In the Arms of Morpheus by Barbara Hodgson (2001, Paperback)

 
In the Arms of Morpheus by Barbara Hodgson (2001, Paperback)

Publisher: Firefly Books Ltd
Publication Date: 2001-10-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1552975401
ISBN-13: 9781552975404
Product ID: EPID1969311
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 i...
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Synopsis
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 Brontës, 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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Publication Date:2001-10-01

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Length:152 pages
Height:7.8 in
Width:6.5 in
Thickness:0.5 in
Weight:12.8 oz

Publisher's Note
Chronicles the history, widespread popular use, medical use, and eventual regulation of opium and its derivatives laudanum and morphine.

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