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Getting the measure of pain
In the 20th century doctors tried to find a way to measure pain. But even when ‘objective’ measures were rejected, an accurate understanding of another’s pain remained frustratingly elusive.
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A quick guide to drugs, the brain and brain chemistry
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Catalogue
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Opium poppy cultivation / by "O".
ODate: [1979]- Books
Opium poppy garden : the way of a Chinese grower / by William Griffith.
Griffith, William, 1946-Date: [1993]- Pictures
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Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum): flowering and fruiting plants. Colour process print, c. 1924.
Date: [1924]Reference: 25597i- Pictures
Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum): white flowers, seed capsule and seeds. Coloured zincograph, c. 1853, after M. Burnett.
Burnett, M. A., active 1850.Date: [1853]Reference: 23992i- Pictures
Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum L.): flowering stems with separate whole and sectioned fruit. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 177-.
Reference: 17243i