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• The Seven Sisters of Sleep: Popular History of the Seven Prevailing Narcotics of the World (London: J. Blackwood, ca. 1860), by M. C. Cooke (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Cocaine and its Use in Ophthalmic and General Surgery (reprinted from the Archives of Ophthalmology, 1884, with supplementary contributions; New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1885), by Herman Knapp, contrib. by F. H. Bosworth, R. J. Hall, E. L. Keyes, William M. Polk, and Carl Koller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Research Findings of Smoking of Abused Substances, ed. by C. Nora Chiang and Richard L. Hawks (PDF at NIH)

• A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach: Treating Cocaine Addiction (1998), by Kathleen Carroll (PDF at drugabuse.gov)
• A Community Reinforcement Plus Vouchers Approach: Treating Cocaine Addiction, by Alan J. Budney and Stephen T. Higgins (HTML and PDF at NIH)

• Neurotoxicity and Neuropathology Associated with Cocaine Abuse, ed. by Maria Dorota Majewski (PDF files at NIH)

• Allegations of a CIA Connection to Crack Cocaine Epidemic: Hearings Before the Select Committee on Intelligence of the United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session (Washington: GPO, 1997), by United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Hasheesh Eater: Being Passages From the Life of a Pythagorean (New York: Harper and Bros., 1857), by Fitz Hugh Ludlow (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Drug Hang-Up: America's Fifty-Year Folly, by Rufus King (HTML at druglibrary.org)

• Between Politics and Reason: The Drug Legalization Debate, by Erich Goode (HTML at druglibrary.org)

• An Offer You Can't Refuse: How US Federal Prosecutors Force Drug Defendants to Plead Guilty (New York et al.: Human Rights Watch, 2013), by Jamie Fellner (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• The Opium Problem (1928), by Charles E. Terry and Mildred Pellens (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Purple Mist (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1924), by Gladys Edson Locke (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• A Hole to Creep Out at From the Late Act of Parliament Against Geneva, and Other Spirituous Liquors: By a New Dram Far Better Than Gin, and a New Punch, Far Wholesomer Than Either Brandy, Rum, or Arrack Punch (London: Printed by J. Hughs, 1736) (page images at NIH)
• An Essay on External Appended Remedies (London: Printed by H. Parker, 1716), by Paul Chamberlen (page images at NIH)

• Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820-1909 (Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017), by Rohan Deb Roy (HTML and PDF files at Cambridge University Press)
• Kina en Kinine (in Dutch; Leiden: Pub. by A. W. Sijthoff for Rijks- Instituut voor Pharmacotherapeutisch Onderzoek, 1927), ed. by Willem Jacobus Bais, U. G. Bijlsma, H. Pinkhof, W. Schüffner, and Pieter van der Wielen
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The First Anesthetic: The Story of Crawford Long (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1950), by Frank K. Boland (PDF at Georgia)

• The First Anesthetic: The Story of Crawford Long (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1950), by Frank K. Boland (PDF at Georgia)
• A Narrative of Events Connected with the Introduction of Sulphuric Ether into Surgical Use (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1891), by Richard M. Hodges (page images at HathiTrust)

• BMC Anesthesiology (2001-) (full serial archives)
• British Journal of Anaesthesia (partial serial archives)
• Anesthesiology (partial serial archives)

• Toxicological and Performance Aspects of Oxygenated Motor Vehicle Fuels (1996), by National Research Council Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology (page images with commentary at NAP)

• A Dissertation on The Chymical Properties and Exhilarating Effects of Nitrous Oxide Gas, and Its Application to Pneumatick Medicine (Philadelphia: Printed for the author at the Lorenzo Press, 1808), by William P. C. Barton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Researches, Chemical and Philosophical: Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide, or Diphlogisticated Nitrous Air, and its Respiration (London: printed for J. Johnson, 1800), by Humphry Davy
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images with commentary at publicdomainreview.org and archive.org

• Research Findings of Smoking of Abused Substances, ed. by C. Nora Chiang and Richard L. Hawks (PDF at NIH)