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Mike Jay: Opium, 21 June 2012
Opium: Reality’s Dark Dream
by Thomas Dormandy.
Yale, 366 pp., £25, March 2012,978 0 300 17532 5 Show More
by Thomas Dormandy.
Yale, 366 pp., £25, March 2012,
“... to suffer’), in Europe it would be centuries before this became part of medicine’s remit. In Thomas Dormandy’s sobering litany, St Teresa of Avila, Philip II of Spain, Charles II and Louis XIV were among millions who died in protracted and unnecessary agony: ‘All were surrounded by the best medical talent of their day. None was offered opium to ... ”
