1. George Meggeson’s price list. (By courtesy of the Pharmaceutical Society) 2. Prescription book of a Scarborough chemist c. 1870. (By courtesy of the Wellcome Trustees) 3. Five-year averages of actual and estimated home consumption of opium per 1,000 population. 4. A chemist’s recipe book of the 1880s. (By courtesy of the late Mr Lloyd Thomas) … Weiterlesen …
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It is surprising that the vast outpouring of words 0n the `drug problem‘ in the last ten years has produced no serious historical examination of the place of narcotics in English society. Reactions to contemporary events have been immediate and specific, strangely isolated in their assumption that drug use is peculiarly a feature of the … Weiterlesen …
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). … Weiterlesen …
In another sense, too, structural changes within society helped formulate this problem framework. Earlier chapters have already touched on how the emergence of separate `professions‘ of doctors and pharmacists in the middle of the century marked a significant stage in the establishment of altered perceptions of opium. Professional medical control was to be one of … Weiterlesen …
The 1868 Act was testimony to the influence which professional consolidation could have on the availability of narcotics. In one important respect, however, it was incomplete. Although the inclusion of patent medicines within poisons legislation had been one aim of both medical and pharmaceutical professions since the 1850s, such products were excluded from the Pharmacy … Weiterlesen …
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