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  • Two men sleeping in the same bed; representing rest. Colour lithograph, 190-.
  • Yei, Uganda: a sleeping sickness camp: circular grass-roofed huts. Photograph, 1900/1910.
  • A group of children suffering from sleeping sickness. Reproduction of a photograph.
  • A sleeping sickness hospital with a low grass-roof, Africa. Photograph, 1900/1920.
  • The benefit of sleeping under a mosquito net. Chromolithograph by A. Guillaume.
  • The benefit of sleeping under a mosquito net. Chromolithograph by A. Guillaume.
  • A mythological scene; the sleeping infant Hercules. Engraving by L.P. Boitard.
  • The benefit of sleeping under a mosquito net. Chromolithograph by A. Guillaume.
  • The benefit of sleeping under a mosquito net. Chromolithograph by A. Guillaume.
  • The benefit of sleeping under a mosquito net. Chromolithograph by A. Guillaume.
  • A sleeping lion in a mountainous landscape. Etching by J. E. Ridinger.
  • A sleeping dog by a lakeside. Etching after E.H. Landseer, 1820/1848.
  • The benefit of sleeping under a mosquito net. Chromolithograph by A. Guillaume.
  • God, supported by three angels, appearing to Noah, who kneels before him while a boy sleeps in his arms; Noah's wife, with two children emerges from a doorway behind. Collotype after M. Raimondi after Raphael.
  • Two sleeping water creatures, similar to mermaids. Etching by J.H. Mortimer, 177-.
  • Hermaphroditus sleeping. Steel engraving by J.B.H. Bourgois after P. Bouillon, 1808.
  • A tiger and a sleeping leopard. Soft ground etching by G. Stubbs, 1788.
  • A sleeping lion and lioness. Etching by A Lurat after J F Lewis.
  • Papaver somniferum L. Papaveraceae Opium Poppy Distribution: Asia minor, but has been dated to 5000BC in Spanish caves. Now grows almost everywhere. The oldest medicine in continuous use, described in the Ebers' papyrus (1550 BC), called Meconium, Laudanum, Paregoric and syrup of poppies. Culpeper (1650) on Meconium '...the juyce of English Poppies boyled till it be thick' and 'I am of the opinion that Opium is nothing else but the juyce of poppies growing in hotter countries, for such Opium as Authors talk of comes from Utopia.[he means an imaginary land, I suspect]’]. He cautions 'Syrups of Poppies provoke sleep, but in that I desire they may be used with a great deal of caution and wariness...' and warns in particular about giving syrup of poppies to children to get them to sleep. The alkaloids in the sap include: Morphine 12% - affects ?-opioid receptors in the brain and causes happiness, sleepiness, pain relief, suppresses cough and causes constipation. Codeine 3% – mild opiate actions – converted to morphine in the body. Papaverine, relaxes smooth muscle spasm in arteries of heart and brain, and also for intestinal spasm, migraine and erectile dysfunction. Not analgesic. Thebaine mildly analgesic, stimulatory, is made into oxycodone and oxymorphone which are analgesics, and naloxone for treatment of opiate overdose – ?-opioid receptor competitive antagonist – it displaces morphine from ?-opioid receptors, and constipation caused by opiates. Protopine – analgesic, antihistamine so relieves pain of inflammation. Noscapine – anti-tussive (anti-cough). In 2006 the world production of opium was 6,610 metric tons, in 1906 it was over 30,000 tons when 25% of Chinese males were regular users. The Opium wars of the end of the 19th century were caused by Britain selling huge quantities of Opium to China to restore the balance of payments deficit. Laudanum: 10mg of morphine (as opium) per ml. Paregoric: camphorated opium tincture. 0.4mg morphine per ml. Gee’s Linctus: up to 60 mg in a bottle. J Collis Browne’s chlorodyne: cannabis, morphine, alcohol etc. Kaolin and Morph. - up to 60 mg in a bottle. Dover’s Powders – contained Ipecacuana and morphine. Heroin is made from morphine, but converted back into morphine in the body (Oakeley, 2012). One gram of poppy seeds contains 0.250mgm of morphine, and while one poppy seed bagel will make a urine test positive for morphine for a week, one would need 30-40 bagels to have any discernible effect. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Papaver somniferum L. Papaveraceae Opium Poppy Distribution: Asia minor, but has been dated to 5000BC in Spanish caves. Now grows almost everywhere. The oldest medicine in continuous use, described in the Ebers' papyrus (1550 BC), called Meconium, Laudanum, Paregoric and syrup of poppies. Culpeper (1650) on Meconium '...the juyce of English Poppies boyled till it be thick' and 'I am of the opinion that Opium is nothing else but the juyce of poppies growing in hotter countries, for such Opium as Authors talk of comes from Utopia [he means an imaginary land, I suspect]’. He cautions 'Syrups of Poppies provoke sleep, but in that I desire they may be used with a great deal of caution and wariness...' and warns in particular about giving syrup of poppies to children to get them to sleep. The alkaloids in the sap include: Morphine 12% - affects ?-opioid receptors in the brain and causes happiness, sleepiness, pain relief, suppresses cough and causes constipation. Codeine 3% – mild opiate actions – converted to morphine in the body. Papaverine, relaxes smooth muscle spasm in arteries of heart and brain, and also for intestinal spasm, migraine and erectile dysfunction. Not analgesic. Thebaine mildly analgesic, stimulatory, is made into oxycodone and oxymorphone which are analgesics, and naloxone for treatment of opiate overdose – ?-opioid receptor competitive antagonist – it displaces morphine from ?-opioid receptors, and reverses the constipation caused by opiates. Protopine – analgesic, antihistamine so relieves pain of inflammation. Noscapine – anti-tussive (anti-cough). In 2006 the world production of opium was 6,610 metric tons, in 1906 it was over 30,000 tons when 25% of Chinese males were regular users. The Opium wars of the end of the 19th century were caused by Britain selling huge quantities of Opium to China to restore the balance of payments deficit. Laudanum: 10mg of morphine (as opium) per ml. Paregoric: camphorated opium tincture. 0.4mg morphine per ml. Gee’s Linctus: up to 60 mg in a bottle. J Collis Browne’s chlorodyne: cannabis, morphine, alcohol etc. Kaolin and Morph. - up to 60 mg in a bottle. Dover’s Powders – contained Ipecacuana and morphine. Heroin is made from morphine, but converted back into morphine in the body (Oakeley, 2012). One gram of poppy seeds contains 0.250mgm of morphine, and while one poppy seed bagel will make a urine test positive for morphine for a week, one would need 30-40 bagels to have any discernible effect. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A man sleeps by a hot stove; a devil blows evil thoughts into his ear; Venus gestures towards the stove, and Cupid learns to walk on stilts in the foreground. Engraving by A. Dürer, ca. 1497-1498.
  • A man sleeps by a hot stove; a devil blows evil thoughts into his ear; Venus gestures towards the stove, and Cupid learns to walk on stilts in the foreground. Engraving by A. Dürer, ca. 1497-1498.
  • A man sleeps by a hot stove; a devil blows evil thoughts into his ear; Venus gestures towards the stove, and Cupid learns to walk on stilts in the foreground. Engraving by A. Dürer, ca. 1497-1498.
  • A dead or sleeping lion. Etching by J F Lewis, ca 1824, after himself.
  • The infant John the Baptist, sleeping. Engraving by Morel after Duchemin after C. Dolci.
  • Panama Canal workers' (European) sleeping quarters: interior showing fold-up bunks. Photograph, ca. 1911.
  • Patients sleeping in the temple of Aesculapius at Epidaurus. Oil painting by Ernest Board.
  • A sailing boat with a man sleeping inside it. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1970.
  • A sailing boat with a man sleeping inside it. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1970.
  • A reclining sleeping male nude. Soft ground etching by G. Demarteau, after C. Vanloo.