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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 Brown
| ISBN: | 9781552975381 |
| Publisher: | Firefly Books |
| Imprint: | Firefly Books |
| Pub date: | 01 Jan 2001 |
| DEWEY: | 362.293 |
| DEWEY edition: | 22 |
| Language: | English |
| Number of pages: | 152 |
| Weight: | 490g |
| Height: | 199mm |
| Width: | 166mm |
| Spine width: | 19mm |
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