PDF In the Arms of Morpheus The Tragic History of Morphine Laudanum and Patent Medicines 9781552975404 Medicine Health Science Books
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The follow-up to the widely praised Opium, In The Arms of Morpheus is the shocking story of how a simple but bewitching substance, touted as a miracle drug, enslaved unwitting generations of 19th century writers, artists and ordinary citizens. Extracted from opium, the sap of the poppy, this popular drug was welcomed into the homes of rich and poor alike, in the guise of medicinal uses in the form of laudanum and opium elixirs, and as pure, undisguised morphine.
Laudanum contained opium, saffron, cinnamon and alcohol. In the spirit of 19th century progress, other opium concoctions were created and a whole industry in quackery erupted. In both Britain and North America, opium was mixed with everything imaginable mercury, hashish, cayenne pepper, ether, chloroform, belladonna and whisky, sherry, wine and brandy.
In the Arms of Morpheus examines how the drinking of laudanum for medical reasons developed and how it became an everyday safeguard against pain, poverty, and boredom. Opium eating was catapulted into fame by the confessions of Thomas De Quincy and insinuated itself into the lives and works of writers such as Louisa May Alcott, Lord Byron, Shelley, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, John Keats, the Brontës, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and many others.
Thoroughly researched and copiously illustrated with photographs, engravings, advertisements, movie stills, pulp magazine and dime novel covers and paraphernalia, In the Arms of Morpheus continues the history of opium's emergence as an omnipresent and sometimes devastating influence.
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In the Arms of Morpheus The Tragic History of Morphine Laudanum and Patent Medicines 9781552975404 Medicine Health Science Books Reviews
- This book is great - it strikes me as a type of coffee table book or gift book on a controversial topic - so I was surprised! It is well written, lavishly illustrated and has great photos. It gives a good sense of the times/history when these drugs were widely used and somewhat accepted. It is surprising to a modern reader how cocaine addiction was treated with heroin etc. This books focuses a fair amount on writers who dabbled (or more) with drugs - it was interesting like between creativity and willingness to experiment....
Recommended - although it doesn't truly delve into statistics - it is an entertaining read! - Great book. The pictures are amazing. Very historical and informative. I LOVED this book and I highly recommend this book
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- This book reads more like an illustrated Cliff note's on a few hundred years of therapeutic use and recreational opiate abuse. Lots of names and dates but not much depth.
- great
- well pleased
- Great book with lots of photos and descriptions. Really covers everything I needed to know about Opium and it's related drugs. Where it started, how it spread, The Opium Wars, etc...
It also goes over the propaganda, the movies and books written about it. I loved the part on poets and politicians who used either morphine or opium. Many tragic stories here, and how they easily got so addicted in the first place.
I enjoyed this book slightly more than the author's other one titled "Opium". - Another great book by Barbara Hodgson. My favorites by her are "Opium" and this one which is about the propaganda that was used to convey the "opiate menace" and the real problems with patent medications at the turn of 19th Century. She finds so many great pieces of ephemera and reproduces logically and beautifully along with writing her own great original copy. She inimitable. There would be a gap in my bookshelf without her books.
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