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  • On the value and use of opium, C. R. Francis
  • Opium lettuce (Lactuca virosa): entire flowering and fruiting plant. Coloured etching by C. Pierre, c. 1865, after P. Naudin.
  • Two men preparing and smoking opium. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • Java: two opium smokers, one reclining, the other one sitting. Process print.
  • Two wealthy Chinese opium smokers. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 19th century.
  • Two poor Chinese opium smokers. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 19th century.
  • A treatise on opium, founded upon practical observations. / By George Young, M.D.
  • A treatise on opium, founded upon practical observations. / By George Young, M.D.
  • A treatise on opium, founded upon practical observations. / By George Young, M.D.
  • A Chinese man sits smoking an opium pipe. Wood engraving after E. Ronjat.
  • J.C. Dollman's"London sketches-an opium den at the East End" Oct 1880
  • Social questions in the orient : great mass meeting (under the auspices of the Anti-Opium Urgency Committee, the Christian Union for the Severance of the Connection of the British Empire with the Opium Trade, and the World's W.C.T.U.) in the Central Hall, Newcastle-0n-Tyne, Friday evening, November 23rd, 1894.
  • Social questions in the orient : great mass meeting (under the auspices of the Anti-Opium Urgency Committee, the Christian Union for the Severance of the Connection of the British Empire with the Opium Trade, and the World's W.C.T.U.) in the Central Hall, Newcastle-0n-Tyne, Friday evening, November 23rd, 1894.
  • Drugs that enslave : the opium, morphine, chloral and hashisch habits / by H.H. Kane.
  • A poppy capsule oozing drops of crude opium and tools for its extraction. Lithograph, ca. 1850.
  • A poppy capsule oozing drops of crude opium and tools for its extraction. Lithograph, ca. 1850.
  • Ascetics preparing and smoking opium outside a rural dwelling in India. Gouache painting by Kavala, 18--.
  • Ascetics preparing and smoking opium outside a rural dwelling in India. Gouache painting by Kavala, 18--.
  • Ascetics preparing and smoking opium outside a rural dwelling in India. Gouache painting by Kavala, 18--.
  • Chinese opium scales: the violin shaped cases are typical and the ivory beams are not uncommon;
  • A skeletal hand offering opium poppies to a living hand. Colour lithograph after S. Smirnov, 1987.
  • A young Jewish woman with long-crowned turban kneels on a mat smoking opium. Engraving, c. 1702.
  • A busy balling room in the opium factory at Patna, India. Lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850.
  • A busy mixing room in the opium factory at Patna, India. Lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850.
  • A busy drying room in the opium factory at Patna, India. Lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850.
  • A busy examining hall in the opium factory at Patna, India. Lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850.
  • A busy stacking room in the opium factory at Patna, India. Lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850.
  • A Mandarin sits on a mat, smoking a long opium pipe. Coloured aquatint by S. Himely, c. 1820.
  • Two Chinese opium smokers, one reclines on a bed and the other sits. Wood-engraving, late 19th century.
  • Chinese opium smokers in a saloon experiencing various effects of the drug. Tinted lithograph, c. 1866, after T. Allom.