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Natural eating in Jamaica and the Caribbean

Riaz Phillips is passionate about the Jamaican food he grew up with and plant-based Caribbean food he came to later, like roti, baiganee and vegan stews and curries. Here he explores the origins and surging popularity of these natural ‘health foods’.

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The child whose town rejected vaccines

Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.

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Cocaine, the Victorian wonder drug

Today, cocaine has a very poor public image as one of the causes of crime and violence. But for the Victorians it was welcomed as the saviour of modern surgery.

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  • A nun wearing her habit holding a jug in the grounds of her convent. Watercolour.
  • A nursing nun, carrying a tray of food and hot drink, wearing the habit of her order. Watercolour drawing.
  • A monk for the care of sick people dressed in his habit. Coloured line engraving by N. de Poilly.
  • A nun holding a medicine spoon with her hospital behind her. Watercolour drawing.
  • A nun in her habit carrying medicine and her Bible, with her hospital behind her. Watercolour drawing.
  • A nun of the order of St. Vincent de Paul dressing a wounded soldier's leg. Wash drawing by E. de Feu, 1832.
  • A nun from the Hospital of Santo Spirito, Rome. Coloured line engraving by C. Duflos le père.
  • A wounded soldier having his foot dressed by a nun, while her assistant holds a bowl of water. Coloured lithograph by C. de Lasteyrie after J.H. Marlet, 1817.
  • A wounded soldier having his foot dressed by a nun, while her assistant holds a bowl of water. Coloured lithograph by C. de Lasteyrie after J.H. Marlet, 1817.
  • Two nuns in a pharmacy, one holds a sick child on her lap: Sisters of Charity Order. Mezzotint by T. Oldham Barlow, 1862, after H. Browne.
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