Illustrations of China and its people : a series of two hundred photographs, with letterpress descriptive of the places and people represented / by J. Thomson, F.R.G.S.

Two Malay men and a woman sit and recline on the floor smoking opium. Wood-engraving, late 19th century.

John Bull as the patient of promotors of competing therapies; representing British parliamentary reform. Aquatint by S. de Wilde, 1809.

A parody astrological diagram showing opposing aspects of the life of settlers in Jamaica: langorous noons and the hells of yellow fever. Coloured aquatint after A.James, 1800.

Two Chinese opium smokers in a booth watched by a woman who fans herself. Wood-engraving, late 19th century.

A horse-drawn hearse pulls away from a doctor's; representing the dire state of the medical establishment according to James Morison, pill-vendor and self-styled 'Hygeian'. Lithograph, c. 1848.

Indian workmen mixing and balling opium in a courtyard in Calcutta. Process print after a photograph by Bourne & Shepherd, c. 1900.

A busy balling room in the opium factory at Patna, India. Lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850.

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Opiologia; ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Opiums und seiner Wirkstoffe / [Otto Zekert].

8 unnumbered pages, 47 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; (8vo)

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

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xii, 745 pages : frontispiece, illustrations ; 22 cm

A philosophical and statistical history of the inventions and customes of ancient and modern nations in the manufacture and use of inebriating liquors : with the present practice of distillation in all its varieties: together with an extensive illustration of the consumption and effects of opium, and other stimulants used in the East, as substitutes for wine and spirits / By Samuel Morewood.

Chemistry of the opium alkaloids / by Lyndon F. Small, assisted by Robert E. Lutz ; prepared by direction of the surgeon general.

The Series in general psychiatry

Opiate addiction : origins and treatment / edited by Seymour Fisher and Alfred M. Freedman.

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Opiologia; ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Opiums und seiner Wirkstoffe / [Otto Zekert].

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

Chemistry of the opium alkaloids / by Lyndon F. Small, assisted by Robert E. Lutz ; prepared by direction of the surgeon general.

Opiate addiction : origins and treatment / edited by Seymour Fisher and Alfred M. Freedman.

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Opium

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Opiologia; ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Opiums und seiner Wirkstoffe / [Otto Zekert].

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

Chemistry of the opium alkaloids / by Lyndon F. Small, assisted by Robert E. Lutz ; prepared by direction of the surgeon general.

Opiate addiction : origins and treatment / edited by Seymour Fisher and Alfred M. Freedman.

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