Hello all

Not necessarily about alcohol, but here goes:

I am trying to find out if addiction specialists actually did any empirical
examinations of the physical effects of addictive drugs like opium at the
turn of the century (19th-20th).  Was anyone feeding opium to birds or
other animals to try to make some conclusions about physical effects?  I
seem to remember Kerr talking about experiments in his 1894 edition of
Inebriety or narcomania, but I wonder how prevalent were these types of
experiments.  Or were addiction investigators just looking at people who
were already addicted, and making conclusions.

Thanks in advance

Dan Malleck
Departments of History
Royal Military College, Kingston
Queen's University, Kingston
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