Drugs, Chemicals, and Health

Collection contains numerous items related to opium and heroin in medicine. Specifically box 9 contains an advertisement for Opium. The collection contains druggest catalogues and price books that list numerous medications and their uses.

Thomas De Quincey, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1856

Horace B. Day, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1868

John Harley, London, Macmillan, 1869

Repository of medical advertisements from 1850 to 1920.

Contains information about cannabis, coca, and poppy plants.

This exhibit by the NLM contains information about tobacco, alcohol, opium, cocaine, and marijuana.