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Opium was first used in a surprising venue — religious ceremonies — but soon passed into common usage as a cure for various ailments during Victorian times; a resonant symbol of the romantic, dissolute East; and an inducer of fever dreams and worse in those who failed to resist its lure. This... read more
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The opium poppy, Papaver somniferum-the poppy that brings sleep, the source of the "drowsy syrup" in Shakespeare's Othello-is the beautiful flower that answers Farrere's desperate question of where to find his precious opium.
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- Dewey: 362.293
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