Wellcome uses cookies.

Read our policy
Skip to main content

Stories

Images

  • A man using RIPA insecticide to kill bedbugs and get a good night's sleep. Colour lithograph, ca. 1900.
  • A little boy wakes up a sleeping man with noisy banging of a drum; the boy sleeps and the man swats flies away from him with a fan. Colour process print, 1909.
  • Chinese opium smokers in a saloon experiencing various effects of the drug. Engraving by G. Paterson, 1843, after T. Allom.
  • Chinese opium smokers in a saloon experiencing various effects of the drug. Engraving by G. Paterson, 1843, after T. Allom.