Stories
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Tripping for spiritualism and science
Getting high in the name of religion or creativity has been practised for centuries. Now it seems hallucinogenics could help treat mental illnesses too.
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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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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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The healing power of the physic garden
Having experienced the healing power of plants and gardens, Iona Glen goes in search of present-day “physic gardens” and their origins in history.
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The treatment of spasmodic croup with opium / by Arthur V. Meigs.
Meigs, Arthur Vincent, 1850-1912.Date: [1889]- Books
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Good remedies - out of fashion / by Charles J. Hare.
Hare, Charles John.Date: 1883- Archives and manuscripts
Monthly Memoranda (points for propaganda)
Date: 1919-1921Reference: WF/M/GB/30/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd