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The truth about the drug companies : how they deceive us and what to do about it / Marcia Angell.
Angell, Marcia.Date: [2004], ©2004- Pictures
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A medicine vendor kneeling and praying. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1801, after G. Woodward.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.Date: [30 July 1801]Reference: 20936i- Digital Images
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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.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Digital Images
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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.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Archives and manuscripts
Apothecary's Cash- and Recipe-Book, 19th century
Date: 1859-1860Reference: MS.7111- Archives and manuscripts
Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 7
Date: June 1901 - November 1901Reference: WF/E/03/07 (copy, part 2)Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
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Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 7
Date: June 1901 - November 1901Reference: WF/E/03/07Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 7
Date: June 1901 - November 1901Reference: WF/E/03/07 (copy, part 1)Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 2
Date: May 1897 - December 1898Reference: WF/E/03/02 (copy, part 2)Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
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Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 2
Date: May 1897 - December 1898Reference: WF/E/03/02Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 2
Date: May 1897 - December 1898Reference: WF/E/03/02 (copy, part 1)Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 4 ['Letter Book HSW Personal 2']
Date: Nov 1896 - Jan 1899Reference: WF/E/01/01/04Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
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Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 5
Date: August 1900 - January 1901Reference: WF/E/03/05Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 5
Date: August 1900 - January 1901Reference: WF/E/03/05 (copy, part 2)Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 5
Date: August 1900 - January 1901Reference: WF/E/03/05 (copy, part 1)Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Digital Images
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Papaver somniferum seed
Dr Henry Oakeley- Pictures
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Compilation of newspaper cuttings including a group of protesters; one wears a death mask and cloak, another carries a banner with the slogan: 'Boycott Wellcome products''; an advertisement for the campaign Act Up Manchester in support of care for those with AIDS. Black and white photocopy with red.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 666679i- Archives and manuscripts
Bruce Lesser, Senior Executive Rep
Date: 17 May 2001Reference: WF/M/AV/O/02/26Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Monthly Memoranda (points for propaganda)
Date: 1926-1927Reference: WF/M/GB/30/04Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Monthly Memoranda (points for propaganda)
Date: 1936Reference: WF/M/GB/30/09Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Monthly Memoranda (points for propaganda)
Date: 1934-1935Reference: WF/M/GB/30/08Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty / Patrick Radden Keefe.
Keefe, Patrick Radden, 1976-Date: 2021- Archives and manuscripts
Monthly Memoranda (points for propaganda)
Date: 1938-1939Reference: WF/M/GB/30/10Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Monthly Memoranda (points for propaganda)
Date: 1922-1923Reference: WF/M/GB/30/02Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Wellcome Foundation Publications
Date: 1887-1995Reference: WF/M/PBPart of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd