Drug AbuseList of Plates
1. The opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, from William Woodville's Medical Botany, published in 1793. (By courtesy of the Wellcome Trustees)
2. Poppy capsules grown in Britain and presented to the Caledonian Horticultural Society. (By courtesy of the Wellcome Trustees)
3. The implements used by Mr Young in his experiments in Scotland. From Transactions of the Society of Arts, 37 (1819). (By courtesy of the Wellcome Trustees)
4. Thomas De Quincey, 1785-1859, by Sir J. Watson Gordon. (By courtesy of the Radio Times Hulton Picture Library)
5. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834. (By courtesy of the Radio Times Hulton Picture Library)
6. Dr John Collis Browne, 1819-84. (By courtesy of Mr C. D. Wilson of J. T. Davenport & Co.)
7. Professor Robert Christison, 1797-1882. (By courtesy of the Radio Times Hulton Picture Library)
8. Dr F. E. Anstie, 1833-74. (By courtesy of the Royal College of Physicians)
9. Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt, 1836-1925.
10. Dr Norman Kerr, 1834-99.
11. Dalrymple House at Rickmansworth. (By courtesy of the Royal Society of Medicine)
12. Women morphine addicts, illustration from Le Petit Journal. (By courtesy of the Mary Evans Picture Library)
13. Hunter's ipodermic or hypodermic syringe, from his book On the Speedy Relief of Pain ... published in 1865. (By courtesy of the Royal Society of Medicine)
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