Tag: Alfred Jay Bollet

• 5 Facts About Opioid Addiction After the Civil War

  

  How many soldiers come home with secrets? How many with scars? Morphine, opium and laudanum, despite being blamed for much heartache, were in the 19th century seen as miracle drugs. The medical calamity of the Civil War was made more bearable by the massive use of painkillers.

  Adrienne Morris

  June 5, 2018

  books, United States History

  Alfred Jay Bollet, Civil War medicine, Civil War Veterans Opiate Addiction, morphine addict, opiate addiction, opiate epidemic veterans, opioid addiction, The House on Tenafly Road

• Books I’ve Known And Loved

  When you write about post-Civil War America it’s impossible not to bump up against war wounds. John Weldon in The House on Tenafly Road is addicted to morphine, given his first dose in a Civil War hospital by well-meaning doctors trying to keep him comfortable before his eventual death–which never happens. He escapes in his…

  Adrienne Morris

  April 17, 2014

  Beautiful Images, Books I’ve Known and Loved, History, The Unknowable Past, The House on Tenafly Road, Writing

  19th Century Medicine, Adrienne Morris, Alfred Jay Bollet, Books, Civil War, Civil War medicine, medicine, Publishing, The House on Tenafly Road, Writers, Writing