Titlebook: Opiate AddictionMorality And Medicine; From Moral Weakness Geoffrey Harding Book 1988 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishe

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Introduction,oday’s heavy smoker or drinker. In 1840, in a prominent medical journal of the day a physician, Dr Thompson, was moved to record his view that opium, when taken as a stimulant, i.e. not for any recognisable medical complaint but merely as a cheap alternative to drink, ’acted as an aphrodisiac and su

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Opium and the British,y day, not only by the many charitable and well-meaning ladies, but by the too officious and ignorant nurses’, and added that he found opium to be a ‘slow poison’.. None the less until the mid-nineteenth century, opium and an array of various opium containing preparations could be bought, sold and c

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The Anti-Opium Crusade,tern cultural practices. For centuries the adequate natural resources of China had meant that overseas trade was largely unnecessary, but was tolerated by the ambivalent Chinese as a means of keeping foreigners or ‘barbarians’ as they called them, under control. Any infringement of restrictions, whi

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Opium and the Quakers,bership to this august body ensured an elevated status in the community but was strictly controlled and conferred only on those who had satisfactorily met the criteria of competence for, and knowledge of, the Quakers’ mission of divinely appointed guardians of moral standards. Members were therefore