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  • A treatise on opium, founded upon practical observations. / By George Young, M.D.
  • An opium den in San Francisco, early 20th century, with two Chinese men smoking. Process print after a photograph.
  • 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.
  • Two poor Chinese opium smokers. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 19th century.
  • Philip Thicknesse writing at a table, surrounded by demonic apparitions representing aspects of his life. Aquatint by J. Gillray after himself, 1790.
  • Cairo: a coffee-house with men sitting on wooden benches to smoke and drink. Colour lithograph by G.W. Seitz, ca. 1878, after Carl Werner, 1871.
  • A busy stacking room in the opium factory at Patna, India. Lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850.
  • 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.
  • 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 opium den in London's East End with a reclining smoker being watched by a group of men. Wood engraving by A. Doms, 1872, after G. Doré.
  • A monkey rejects the old style clyster for his new 'clyso-pompe', which he fills with opium and marshmallow. Coloured lithograph.
  • A busy examining hall in the opium factory at Patna, India. Lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850.
  • The funeral of a Chinese merchant's wife in Hong Kong. Wood engraving after G.W. Cooke (?), 1859.
  • A couple buy some narcotics from an apothecary whose assistant, Death, works with a pestle and mortar in the back room. Coloured lithograph by J. Grandville.
  • 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.
  • The boiling and testing of opium by Chinese men watched by a European man. Wood-engraving by F. Dadd, c. 1880.
  • 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.
  • A Chinese man sits smoking an opium pipe. Wood engraving after E. Ronjat.
  • A busy drying 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.
  • A field of poppies and a white bra floating against a red sunset representing an advertisement for safe sex; German version of a series of 'Stop AIDS' campaign posters by the Federal Office of Public Health in collaboration with the AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz. Colour lithograph.
  • 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.
  • A poppy capsule oozing drops of crude opium and tools for its extraction. Lithograph, ca. 1850.
  • 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.