“In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Down to a sunless sea ...” Opium has been known since at least 3400 BCE, when the Sumerians produced the ...

One of the elements of dramatic tension in the wonderful Master and Commander series of books is the relationship between the brilliant and resourceful ship’s surgeon, Dr. Maturin, and the laudanum ...

Eighteenth-century female authors such as Mary Robinson and Sara Coleridge were as dependent on laudanum as male writers, a new study reveals. Laudanum, an alcoholic medicine containing opium, was ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In January 1889, The British Journal of Psychiatry published a letter said to have been written ...

“ABSOLUTE sobriety is not a natural or primary human state,” asserts Richard Davenport-Hines at the beginning of this voluminous and comprehensive history of drug-taking. The evidence he produces is ...

Laudanum is a drug that is 10% opium and is mixed with an alcoholic solution. The substance contains both morphine and codeine and was frequently used as a pain killer until the early 20th century ...

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The North Water is a thrilling adventure series on BBC Two that follows a crew of whale hunters across the Arctic. One of the crew members on The Volunteer is veteran surgeon Patrick Sumner (played by ...

We see the writing on the wall — you want your pickled eggs, your heritage millet, your rusty chicken coops, maybe a prairie linen or two. You like artisanal? We’ll show you artisanal. How many of you ...