The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on DrugsHarvard University Press, 1. des. 2002 - 360 sider From the antiquity of Homer to yesterday's Naked Lunch, writers have found inspiration, and readers have lost themselves, in a world of the imagination tinged and oftentimes transformed by drugs. The age-old association of literature and drugs receives its first comprehensive treatment in this far-reaching work. Drawing on history, science, biography, literary analysis, and ethnography, Marcus Boon shows that the concept of drugs is fundamentally interdisciplinary, and reveals how different sets of connections between disciplines configure each drug's unique history. |
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... ether . Since he did not pub- lish his results , news of successful anesthesia was spread around the world by the series of demonstrations of ether's anesthetic properties conducted by William Morton at the Massachusetts General ...
... ether in an essay called " Mechanism in Thoughts and Morals ” : “ In- hale a few whiffs of ether , and we cross over into the unknown world of death with a return ticket ; or we prefer chloroform , and perhaps get no return ticket ...
... Ether was also given to women who found intercourse physically painful or impossible . O. P. Dinnick describes a case in late - nineteenth - century Scotland where , “ suffice it to say that it became the business of the physician to ...
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