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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Two wealthy Chinese opium smokers. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 19th century.
  • 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.
  • A busy mixing room in the opium factory at Patna, India. Lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850.
  • 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.
  • Why will ye die!! / J.D.M. Crockwell, M.D.
  • Ascetics preparing and smoking opium outside a rural dwelling in India. Gouache painting by Kavala, 18--.
  • The mysteries of opium reveal'd / by Dr. John Jones.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • An unscrupulous chemist selling a child arsenic and laudanum. Wood engraving after J. Leech.
  • Mandsaur Opium Agency : No ... Dated ... Hundi ... Pass duty on sheets of opium ... Drawer ... Drawer at Bombay ... Hundi stamp paper Rs.
  • Ascetics preparing and smoking opium outside a rural dwelling in India. Gouache painting by Kavala, 18--.
  • Neuralgia, face-ache, tic in the head, & toothache are cured certainly, safely, and speedily, by Tikheel... / Clarke, Bleasdale, Bell & Co.
  • 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.
  • Confessions of an English opium-eater / [Thomas De Quincey].
  • A man selling opium; nearby a woman breast feeds her baby. Engraving by F. W. Topham, c. 1840, after W. Muller.
  • 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 trees being cultivated by doctors; symbolising the differences claimed by James Morison between the 'organic' and his 'hygeist' approached to health. Lithograph, c. 1835.
  • 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.