PARK, William Hector (comp.).

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Opinions of Over 100 Physicians on the Use of Opium in China. First edition of this wide-ranging report by the Anti-Opium League of China, an organization run by Western missionaries in north and central China. The league sent physicians 18 questions exploring the extent and deleterious impact of opium use and techniques for weaning addicts off the drug.The responses are followed by a series of essays, one of which, by the superintendent of the South Yangtze Forts, discusses addiction in the imperial army.

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