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Wood end-piece from a Chinese opium pipe, clenched fist style, purchased from China. The ceramic opium pipe bowl was inserted into the hole which is visible in the top of the fist
Two porcelain and one brass opium pill or pellet rollers from Beijing, China. It was necessary to work opium paste into small pills or pellets before the process of smoking began.
HARRISBURG – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a federal grand jury in Harrisburg has indicted three men, two for distributing heroin and crack cocaine in York that led to the death of a York City man and a third man for operating and maintaining a home in York for purposes of facilitating drug trafficking.
Brass portable opium lamp with protective cage. This specimen was used in California in the late 19th century. The cage has a chain and hook for suspension when not in use.
The story of Opium goes back well before the nineteenth century invention of heroin, opium clippers riding the South China Sea, the discovery of morphne, poets habituated to laudanum, the rudimentary pharmacology of the Middle Ages and the political machinations of ambitious Roman murderers. It has its origins in the start of human society and its use almost certainly pre-dates civilization. In fact, there seems little doubt that opium was one of the first medical substances known o mankind. "Opium: A History"
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