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During the American Revolution, the Continental and British armies used opium to treat sick and wounded soldiers. Benjamin Franklin took opium late in life to cope with severe pain from a bladder...
The opium pipe itself became a powerful symbol of the era, representing both the allure and the destructive consequences of opium use. It was an elegant and ornate instrument, often made from precious materials such as jade or ivory.
May 11, 2020 · What organ music does for the mourner, we might say, opium does for the modern dreamer and war for the organic nation. Some pipe organs, however, apparently work differently, emphasising less ascent than a digressive mobility, ricocheting around corners and across time.
- Miranda Stanyon
- 2020
An opium pipe is a pipe designed for the evaporation and inhalation of opium. True opium pipes allow for the opiate to be vaporized while being heated over a special oil lamp known as an opium lamp .
May 11, 2020 · In this ‘magical revolution’, the essays demonstrate, opium played an overdetermined role. The point is made most emphatically by Gupta’s analysis of the conveyance of opium in the Indian postal network.
- Josephine McDonagh, Briony Wickes
- 2020
In this set, you will analyze a variety of primary sources to explore the trading activities of two prominent Massachusetts families -- the Forbes and Perkins -- with China in the early 19th century including the ethics of American and British merchants smuggling opium into China.
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Jan 4, 2018 · The Civil War helped set off America’s opiate epidemic. The Union Army alone issued nearly 10 million opium pills to its soldiers, plus 2.8 million ounces of opium powders and tinctures. An unknown number of soldiers returned home addicted, or with war wounds that opium relieved.
