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Getting sexy with cinnamon

Add some flavour to your love life with this spice. It will warm up more than just your buns.

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The aphrodisiac apothecary

Not in the mood? Come and visit our traditional drug store for natural tonics rumoured to increase sexual desire.

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Milk trails round Euston

Where cows once grazed near Wellcome Collection in London, baristas now froth their milk. Esther Leslie uncovers Euston’s dairy-based urban history.

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  • Gastropod molluscs, including oysters, leeches, scolopendrids and whelks. Etching.
  • A girl is selling oysters to a customer in the street. Coloured lithograph.
  • A woman selling oysters at night. Wood engraving by H. Linton after H. Morland.
  • People are crowded around a table on which there is a large dish of oysters, a waterman with an oar looks on, and a boy is emptying more oysters out of a donkey's panniers. Engraving by William Greatbach after A. Fraser.
  • Fisher-folk and their methods of catching oysters. Engraving, c.1762, by Benard after L.J. Goussier.
  • Bought of Smith Bros : wholesale and retail dealers in fish, game, poultry, venison, &c., Wenham Lake ice, native oysters.
  • A lame man and a blind man go to court; the lawyer eats oysters and gives them the empty shells. Mezzotint, 1779.
  • A lame man and a blind man go to court; the lawyer eats oysters and gives them the empty shells. Mezzotint, 1779.
  • A lame man and a blind man go to court; the lawyer eats oysters and gives them the empty shells. Mezzotint, 1779.
  • A poor patient telling his doctor that he wants to stay alive because oysters will be cheap again. Wood engraving after C. Keene.
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