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Foraging for a taste of the past

Follow tips from a professional forager to recreate delicious 18th-century recipes from plants growing wild in parks and on urban wasteland.

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Fashion for an unruly body

One weekend, just before an operation to correct her scoliosis, Rosalind Jana stopped trying to hide her body. Read how those two days helped her step into the future.

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The desire for lighter skin

Discover why some Black people feel more attractive with lighter skin. Ngunan Adamu speaks to three women who explain how they got hooked on skin bleaching.

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Deadly doses and the hardest of hard drugs

The invention of the modern hypodermic syringe meant we could get high – or accidentally die – faster than before. Find out how this medical breakthrough was adapted for deadly uses.

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  • Instructions for administering Hill and Berry's medicine.
  • Ginkgo berry
  • Hill and Berry's medicine for cure of rabies
  • John Gerard. Line engraving by T. Berry after J. Payne, 1633.
  • John Gerard. Line engraving by T. Berry after J. Payne, 1633.
  • John Bulwer. Line engraving by T. Berry, 1820, after W. Faithorne.
  • Charles-Ferdinand d'Artois, Duc de Berry. Lithograph by Nicolas-Eustache Maurin.
  • Berry Dental Engine. Fig. 101, page 238, 'Dental Electricity' by Levitt E Custer, 1901.
  • Caroline-Ferdinande Louise de Bourbon, Duchesse de Berry. Lithograph by Zéphirin-Félix-Jean-Marius Belliard, 1829.
  • Dr. P.O. Baldo's celebrated Blood and Liver Pills : the best anti-bilious pills in the world / L.M. Berry.
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