Stories
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Tripping for spiritualism and science
Getting high in the name of religion or creativity has been practised for centuries. Now it seems hallucinogenics could help treat mental illnesses too.
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Cocaine, the Victorian wonder drug
Today, cocaine has a very poor public image as one of the causes of crime and violence. But for the Victorians it was welcomed as the saviour of modern surgery.
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Coleridge’s hypochondria
An intense focus on his own bodily sensations led poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge to self-medicate with narcotics. But this fascination also put Coleridge ahead of the medical sensibilities of his day.
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The healing power of the physic garden
Having experienced the healing power of plants and gardens, Iona Glen goes in search of present-day “physic gardens” and their origins in history.
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On the action and use of the opium alkaloids cryptopia and thebaia / by John Harley, M.D.
Harley, John, M.D.Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]- Books
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Essai sur l'emploi de l'opium en médecine : thèse présentée et publiquement soutenue à la Faculté de médecine de Montpellier, le 21 juillet 1837 / par Jules-Alexandre Nicod.
Nicod, Jules Alexandre.Date: 1837- Books
The medicinal use of opium in ninth-century Baghdad / by Selma Tibi.
Tibi, Selma, 1950-Date: 2006- Books
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An inaugural dissertation, on the rationale of the operation of opium on the animal economy : with observations on its use in disease ; submitted to the examination of the Reverend John Ewing, S.T.P. provost ; the trustees and medical faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, on the [blank] May, 1797, for the Degree of Doctor of Medicine / by John Laws, M.B. of Dover, state of Delaware.
Laws, John.Date: 1797- Books
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De l'opium, considéré sous le rapport de la médecine pratique et de la médecine légale : thèse présentée et publiquement soutenue à la Faculté de médecine de Montpellier, le 5 décembre 1836 / par François-Léopold Ponet.
Ponet, François Léopold.Date: 1836