In the arms of Morpheus : the tragic history of laudanum, morphine, and patent medicines

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 Bronte's Samuel Taylor Coleridge And Many Others. Illustrated With Photographs, Engravings, Advertisements, Movie Stills, Pulp Magazine And Dime Novel Covers And Paraphernalia. Introduction: In The Arms Of Morpheus -- The Search For Health: Opium's Role In The Evolution Of Medicine -- Drink Me: Laudanum And Other Tradional Opium Medicines -- The Possessed: Morphine -- I Like It! I Want It! Patent Medicines From Cradle To Grave -- Opiomania: Criminalization Breaks The Poppy's Shell -- Appendix: Opium At The Movies. Barbara Hodgson. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Contents Introduction: In the Arms of Morpheus The Search for Health: Opium's Role in the Evolution of Medicine Drink Me: Laudanum and Other Traditional Opium Medicines The Possessed: Morphine I Like It! I Want It! Patent Medicines from Cradle to Grave Opiomania: Criminalization Breaks the Poppy's Spell Appendix: Opium at the Movies Notes Bibliography Acknowledgements Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z