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Jean Cocteau
Opium
1948 chez Stock. In-8, broché, 270 pages.
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Nombreuses illustrations en noir et blanc. Exemplaire en très bon état. Intérieur frais et agréable.
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5 book(s) with the same title
Opium, la perle noire, Art et histoire d'un rituel perdu.
, Brussel Mercatorfonds, 2007, Relie sous jaquette,ISBN: 9789061537366 (Francais)Nombre de pages: 208, Dimensions: 31 x 25,5 cm, 450 illustrations en couleurs, * bon etat. ISBN 9789061537366.
Opium. Le mot evoque a lui seul un univers mysterieux melant aventure et romantisme tenebreux. L'opium est considere comme un don du ciel, mais aussi comme la pire des miseres. Des l'Antiquite, il est question de l'effet miraculeux du suc qui est extrait du papaver somniferum. Il est connu dans le monde entier pour agir efficacement contre divers maux et pour soulager la douleur. Il represente par ailleurs un moyen de s'evader de la triste realite. Nombreux sont les ecrivains et artistes qui se sont ainsi inspires des visions qu'ils avaient sous l'effet de l'opium. Il n'empeche que le cote obscur de l?? opium rattrape toujours ceux qui s?? adonnent sans frein a cette drogue. Car l?? accoutumance mene a la dependance et, une fois celle-ci installee, le point de non-retour est souvent atteint.En tant qu?? article de commerce, l?? opium a revetu une importance economique enorme. Il a servi de levier aux Anglais pour forcer la porte ?? close depuis des siecles ?? de l?? Empire celeste, ce qui a presque conduit la Chine a sa perte. Depuis lors, les Chinois considerent l?? opium comme le symbole de l?? exploitation et de l?? humiliation etrangere. Dans les innombrables publications consacrees a l?? opium, un aspect de celui-ci a toujours ete neglige : la culture materielle autour du rituel de l?? opium, ou s?? exprime pourtant toute la richesse de l?? artisanat d?? art chinois, ainsi que son incomparable beaute. A travers cet ouvrage, qui presente pour la premiere fois au public une selection de pipes a opium et d?? accessoires aussi splendides que rares, les auteurs sauvent de l?? oubli un pan de culture pratiquement inconnu.
De l'Opium et de la Morphine - Leur emploi, leur utilité, leurs dangers - Guérison assurée des troubles psychiques et physiques du Morphinisme
Paris, Bibliothèque des curiosités H. Daragon, Editeur, 1908. 1 volume in-12, 84 pp., reliure moderne plein cuir noir, couvertures d'origine conservées, quelques rousseurs sur le premier plat et la page de garde, sinon bon état.
Table des matières: De l'opium - Dérivés du pavot et de l'opium - Emploi de l'opium en médecine - l'opium dans Pline - Les effets de l'opium - Pharmacopée d'Edimbourg et autres - Psychologie du fumeur d'opium - Les fumeries d'opium - l'opium interdit en Chine - la question de l'opium en Chine - de la thérique, sa composition - De la morphine et des morphinomanes - Anaphrodisie morphinique - Psychologie du morphinomane - Conclusion.
"SERTÜRNER, FRIEDRICH. - THE ISOLATION OF MORPHINE AND COINING THE WORD 'MORPHINE'.
Reference : 49073
(1817)
Analyse de l'Opium. De la Morphine et de l'Acide méconique, considérés comme parties essentielles de l'Opium.
Paris, Crochard, 1817. No wrappers. Extract from ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", tome 5, Cahier 1. With titlepage and htitle to vol. 5. Pp. 21-42.
First French edition (the German paper issued simutaneously in Gilbert's Annalen) of this groundbreaking paper claiming to be the first to announce the isolation of pure morphine from opium. This process marks an importent step in the beginnings of alkaloid chemistry, and the isolation of morphine is the first isolation of an alkali of vegetable origin. In his paper Sertuerner coined the word ""morphine"" after Morpheus (the Greek God of sleep).The isolation of morphine from opium, the first isolation of a natural product, was a seminal event in the development of pharmacology as an independent discipline. The purification kick-started natural product chemistry and quickly led to the isolation of a host of other alkaloids. Within a few years, in 1827, Heinrich Emanuel Merck of Darmstadt began selling morphine, resulting in the development of the eponymous company. Sertürner reported his first observations on Opium in 1805, which was mainly concerned with the constituent of meconic acid, but ""it was only in 1817...(in the paper offered) that he unequivocally reported the isolation of pure morphine. He prepared it by extracting opium with hot water and precipitating morphine with ammonia. he obtained colorless crystals, poorly soluble in water, but soluble in acids and alcohol. In order to establish that his crystals carried the pharmacological activity of raw opium, Sertuerner tested them on himself and three boys, ""none older than seventeen."". It was a near-catastrophe."" (Ryan J. Huxtable a. K.W. Schwarz).DEROSNE (1803) made claim of priority in the discovery of opium, but he only ""prepared a crude extract of opium with alcohol and water, and obtained by potassium carbonate preciipitation, what he called ""sel de Derosne"". Derosne's alkaloidal fraction lacked narcotic properties, and was probably largely narcotine (also known as noscapine), perhaps with meconic acid, both abundant in opium."" (Huxtable & Schwarz).Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"", 1817 C,The offered issue contains another importent paper by Alexander v. Humboldt: ""Sur les Lignes isothermes. (Extrait)"", pp. 102-111 and a large folded engraved plate. Here Humboldt introduced ""Isothermes"" in meteorology. This extract issued at the same time as the larger memoir which appeared in ""Mémoires de physique et de chimie de la Société d’Arcueil"" (1817).
Michel Lamberti Les grandes manoeuvres de l'opium
1976 1976. 5 Catherine Lamour Michel Lamberti - Les grandes manoeuvres de l'opium / 1976
Très bon état
L'opium des espions Nº 1124 Fleuve Noir espionnage 1974
1974 1974. Marc Arno - L'opium des espions Nº 1124 / Fleuve Noir Espionnage 1974
Bon état
