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By 1817, De Quincey was consuming more than 20,000 milligrams of morphine a day. De Quincey’s book Confessions of an Opium Eater (1821) achieved a legendary status in Western societies as one of the most popular texts describing the influence of opium. In George Pettey’s The Narcotic Drug Diseases and Allied Ailments: Pathology, Pathogenesis, and Treatment (1913), the author critically…
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By 1817, De Quincey was consuming more than 20,000 milligrams of morphine a day. De Quincey’s book Confessions of an Opium Eater (1821) achieved a legendary status in Western societies as one of the most popular texts describing the influence of opium. In George Pettey’s The Narcotic Drug Diseases and Allied Ailments: Pathology, Pathogenesis, and Treatment (1913), the author critically…