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Drugs - Physiological effect

Images

  • Chinese opium smokers in a saloon experiencing various effects of the drug. Tinted lithograph, c. 1866, after T. Allom.
  • An opium den in London's East End with smokers lying on wooden bunks and slouching by the fire. Wood-engraving by W. B. Murray, c. 1880.
  • Chinese opium smokers in a saloon experiencing various effects of the drug. Engraving by G. Paterson, 1843, after T. Allom.
  • An opium den in London's East End with men lying on wooden bunks as a smoker enters. Wood-engraving, c. 1880, after J. C. Dollman.
  • Chinese opium smokers in a saloon experiencing various effects of the drug. Engraving by G. Paterson, 1843, after T. Allom.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Drugs demystified : drug education / Helen Nowlis.

    Nowlis, Helen H., 1913- | Date: 1975
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    Special needs and drug education / Richard Ives.

    Ives, Richard | Date: [2005]
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    Pure murder : a book about drug use / edited by Noreen O'Donohue and Sue Richardson.

    | Date: 1984
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    An inquiry into the physiological and medicinal properties of the Aconitum Napellus : to which are added observations on several other species of aconitum / by Alexander Fleming.

    Fleming, Alexander, 1824-1875. | Date: 1845
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    Your everyday drugs / William Breckon.

    Breckon, William. | Date: 1978
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