In the arms of Morpheus
Subtitle: the tragic history of laudanum, morphine, and patent medicines
By: Barbara Hodgson.
Publisher: Firefly Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Buffalo, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
Subjects: Opium -- History.; Morphine -- History.; Patent medicines -- History.; Hallucinogenic drugs -- History.; Drug addiction -- History.; Authors -- Drug use -- History.; Opium -- history.; Morphine -- history.; Substance-Related Disorders.
Description: 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 Bronts͡, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and many others.  Illustrated with photographs, engravings, advertisements, movie stills, pulp magazine and dime novel covers and paraphernalia.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Originated and simultaneously published in Canada by Greystone Books, Vancouver"--T.p. verso.