| Author: |
WHITE, David. |
| Title: |
THE FIRST PHARMACY IN LUTON Established in 1825 AND THE HISTORY OF DUBERLY & WHITE. |
| Description: |
Canterbury, Privately published, 2011. pp. 90, 68 Figs. A4, semi-stiff binding. |
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* A remarkable record of the extensive collection of documentation from 1841 to 1955 of this notable Luton pharmacy business. It includes interesting details of the prescription books, recipe books, advertisements and testimonials collected over this period and is profusely illustrated. £12 |
| Author: |
JONES, John |
| Title: |
THE MYSTERIES OF OPIUM REVEAL'D |
| Description: |
FIRST EDITION. London, Richard Smith, 1701. pp. (xi), 371; folding Table of doses of opiates, tear neatly repaired. Contemporary panelled calf with gilt decoration to spine which is relaid, corners repaired; two old ink sigs. on title; light spotting/browning in the text and two old red ink marks in margin of two pages; small burn in one leaf with loss of one letter; browning of fore-margin of last leaf. |
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* Blake, p. 236. The earliest English description of drug addiction. Hunter & Macalpine, p. 282-284 - 'From this early treatise on opium, its actions, uses and abuses are quoted descriptions of chronic opium addiction which the author recognised as comparable to alcoholism; the opium withdrawal or abstinence syndrome; and his method of withdrawing the drug from an addict which included the use of wine as a partial substitute until withdrawal was complete'. £695 |
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