In the arms of Morpheus
Opium abuse
Patent medicines
Hallucinogenic drugs
Nonprescription Drugs
Opium
Medicine, history
Drug addiction
History, 19th Century
Drug use
Authors
Substance-Related Disorders
Social aspects
History
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 Al…
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