Scotland's Opium Secrets

Wed, 05 Nov, 2025 at 06:00 pm UTC+00:00

11 Queen Street, EH2 1JQ Edinburgh, United Kingdom | Edinburgh

Physicians\u2019 Gallery
Publisher/HostPhysicians’ Gallery
Scotland's Opium Secrets
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By the 1700s Edinburgh was becoming a centre for medical research into opium products, even if controversies about them caused bitter disputes at the city's university and at the Royal College of Physicians.
This lecture will show how the story of opium in Scotland was shaped by the wider currents of the nation's history of Enlightenment, imperialism, urbanisation and industrialization.
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