Stories
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Laughing gas and the scientific pursuit of the sublime
Part science lecture. part public spectacle, thanks to chemist Humphry Davy the 19th-century craze for inhaling nitrous oxide rapidly spread from the science laboratory to fashionable salons and homes of the day, and onto the popular stage.
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Inhaling happiness and gasping for a high
The rapid, short-lived high we get from whippets, reefers and vapes can be accompanied by long-term health consequences. The search is on for safer ways to get stoned.
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Coleridge’s hypochondria
An intense focus on his own bodily sensations led poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge to self-medicate with narcotics. But this fascination also put Coleridge ahead of the medical sensibilities of his day.
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Drugs in Victorian Britain
Many common remedies were taken throughout the 19th century, with more people than ever using them. What was the social and cultural context of this development?
Catalogue
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- Online
Nitrous Oxide Gas Apparatrus. Leather covered, or mahogany case, Fig. 972. Gasometer's for Liquid Gas (Barth's), Fig. 973. Page 331.
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Anaesthesia: Nitrous Oxide Cylinder, 1870
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Anaesthesia: Nitrous Oxide Cylinder, 1939.
- Archives and manuscripts
On the administration of Nitrous Oxide
Clover, Joseph Thomas, 1825-1882.Date: 1868Reference: MS.1687Part of: Clover, Joseph Thomas (1825-1882)- Archives and manuscripts
Apnoea under Nitrous Oxide and Ether...
Clover, Joseph Thomas, 1825-1882.Date: c. 1870Reference: MS.1690Part of: Clover, Joseph Thomas (1825-1882)