In a message dated 5/2/02 9:07:07 PM,
somebody@icomm.ca writes:
<< > In 19th century Britain, what are nowadays hard
and illegal drugs were
> acceptable medicines. They were NOT illegal. Queen
Victoria was
> prescribed laudanum, which contains cocaine. Cocaine
is a
pain-killer; >> There's a book "Subcutaneously My Dear
Watson" thatI owned for a while and never got around to
reading. About Holmes' use of cocaine in the stories, and the
general social attitude toward cocaine during the gaslit
atmospherics era. Had footnotes and a bibliography.
Betsy
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