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Responses to memorials from the Society for the Suppression of the Opium Trade. ; "Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty" --t.p. ; Responses to memorials from the Society for the Suppression of the Opium Trade. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- PART I THE JUICE -- Petrified buns -- The magical seepage -- A gift of the gods -- Rival brews -- Affyon -- The sleepy sponge -- Greater than Celsus? -- The tincture and the powder -- On the banks of the Ganges -- The Turkish connection -- Romantic opium -- The pleasure dome of Xanadu -- The opium eaters -- The people -- A salve for all ailments -- PART II THE ESSENCE -- The shape of dreams -- The most wicked of wars -- The Yellow Peril -- Doctors rule -- American voices -- Nervous waste -- A heroic substance -- The birth of a crusade -- War and Peace (of sorts) -- Victims and survivors -- Unholy alliances -- Junkies -- Guardians of the law -- Zero tolerance -- God's own medicine -- Treatments and cures -- Life and death of a drug lord -- The making of a modern narco-state -- New trails: old tribulations -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Selected Annotated Bibliography -- Index.

CONTENT: Prescription using Ammonii, Opii & Camphor & Menthae Piperitae [peppermint] perhaps as a carminative. BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY: The Day Family were anglo Indian traders, on the Navajo Reservation in eastern Arizona. The collection includes the personal and business papers of Sam Day, Sr. (1845-1925) surveyor, Indian trader, legislator and United States Indian Commissioner; Anna Day, Sam Sr.'s wife (1872-1932); and of their children, Charles L. Day (1879-1918), Samuel Day, Jr. (1889-1944), United States deputy Marshall. The collection includes information on Navajo culture, stories and legends; the looting of Canyon del Muerta, and the Frank Dugan murder. The collection also contains 91 photographs depicting trading posts and eastern Arizona scenes.

v. 1. Confessions of an English opium-eater -- v. 2. Recollections of the lakes and the lake poets -- v. 3. Last days of Immanuel Kant -- v. 4. The English mail coach -- v. 5. Dr. Samuel Parr, or, Whiggism in its relation to literature -- v. 6. Richard Bentley -- v. 7. Protestantism -- v. 8. Leaders in literature -- v. 9. The Cæsars -- v. 10. Style and rhetoric -- v. 11. Coleridge and opium-eating -- v. 12. -- Speculations literary and philosophic -- v. 13. The art of conversation -- v. 14. Autobiographic sketches, 1790-1803 -- v. 15. Biographies of Shakespeare, Pope, Goethe, and Schiller ; and, On the political parties of modern England -- v. 16. Suspira de profundis. ; Mode of access: Internet.

"Compiled for the information of Members of Parliament." ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Talbot collection of British pamphlets.

At head of title: Opium (Negotiations with China) ; Cover title. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Half-title: Chinese researches, anecdotes, and reflections, commercial and political. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Each vol. has separate t.p. ; Includes index. ; v.1. Confessions of an English opium-eater, and kindred papers. -- v.2. Autobiographic sketches. -- v.3. Literary reminiscences ; from the autobiography of an English opium-eater. -- v.4. Literary criticism. -- v.5. The eighteenth century in scholarship and literature. -- v.6. Biographical and historical essays. -- v.7. Essays in ancient history and antiquities. -- v.8. Essays on Christianity, paganism, and superstition. -- v.9. Essays in philosophy. -- v.10. Politics and political economy. -- v.11. Romances and extravaganzas. -- v.12. Narrative and miscellaneous papers. ; Mode of access: Internet.

v. 16-17 is New ed. ; 1. Confessions of an English opium-eater.--2. Biographical essays.--3. Miscellaneous essays.--4. Caesars.--5-6. Literary reminiscences.--7-8. Narrative & miscellaneous papers.--9. Essays on the poets and other English writers.--10-11. Historical and critical essays.--12. Autobiographic sketches.--13-14. Philosophical writers and other men of letters.--15. Letters to a young man.--16-17. Theological of essays.--18. Note-book of an English opium-eater.--19-20. Memorials.--21. Avenger.--22. The logic of political economy. ; Mode of access: Internet.

v.15, 22, 1868. ; v.9, 17, 1867. ; v.7-8, 12-14, 18, 1866. ; v.4-6,19-20, 1865. ; v.2, 1861. ; Each volume has special t.p. ; v. 2. Biographical essays. -- v. 4. The Caesars. -- v. 5-6. Literary reminiscences from the autobiography of an English opium-eater. -- v. 7-8. Narrative and miscellaneous papers. -- v. 9. Essays on the poets and other English writers. -- v. 12. Autobiographic sketches. -- v. 13-14. Essays on philosophical writers and other men of letters. -- v.15. Letters to a young man and other papers. -- v. 16-17. Theological essays and other papers. -- v. 18. The notebook of an English opium-eater. -- v. 19-20. Memorials and other papers. -- v. 22. The logic of political economy and other papers. ; Mode of access: Internet.