Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Tables and Figures viii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction: Its Baneful Infl uences 3
6. Medicating Canada before Regulation 13
7. Opium in Nineteenth-Century Medical Knowledge 29
8. Canada’s First Drug Laws 53
9. Chinese Opium Smoking and Threats to the Nation 84
10. Medicine, Addiction, and Ideas of Nation 109
11. Madness and Addiction in the Asylums of English Canada 137
12. Proprietary Medicines and the Nation’s Health 167
13. Regulating Proprietary Medicine 194
14. Drug Laws and the Creation of Illegality 214
15. Conclusion: Baneful Infl uences 245
16. Notes 250
17. Bibliography 286
18. Index 295