Confessions of an English Opium-Eater · Character
Awsiter
An apothecary who supplies the narrator with opium.
minor
First appearance: preliminary confessions
Awsiter shows up with force in To the Reader. The page is where that presence becomes real.
Apothecary to Greenwich Hospital, author of 'Essay on the Effects of Opium' (1763), quoted on the dangerous allure of opium.
Awsiter first appears in 0002 preliminary confessions.
In To the Reader: Apothecary to Greenwich Hospital, author of 'Essay on the Effects of Opium' (1763), quoted on the dangerous allure of opium.
Later, in The Pleasures of Opium: Mentioned as a surgeon who claimed to be drunk with opium daily, providing a counterpoint to the narrator's own experience.
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- Opium-Era Associates
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See Awsiter in preliminary confessions