Stories
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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?
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Dealing with the dead after a nuclear attack
Cold War-era predictions of death on a vast scale became routine. But the British authorities were less prepared to dispose of the bodies.
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Bloody capitalism and the cash flow of the menstrual cycle
Once they thrived on taboos and shame. Now period-product manufacturers are finding new ways to flourish in this era of period activism – but products aren’t the end of the story.
- Book extract
Renaissance women and their killer cosmetics
In this extract from ‘How to be a Renaissance Woman’, Jill Burke delves into a complex world of beauty products, poison and patriarchy – and reveals the impossible contradictions of femininity faced by 16th-century women.
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Digest of criticisms on the United States pharmacopoeia, seventh decennial revision, 1890 / published by The Committee of Revision and Publication of the Pharmacopoeia of the United States of America.
Date: 1897-1898- Books
Digest of researches and criticisms bearing on the revision of the British pharmacopoeia, 1898 : 1899 to 1902 inclusive / prepared for the Pharmacopoeia Committee of the General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom by W. Chattaway.
Date: 1903- Books
Report for 1898 on the progress of pharmacy in its relation to the future revision of the British pharmacopoeia of 1898 : a digest of researches and criticisms / prepared for the General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom by John Attfield.
Attfield, John, 1835-1911.Date: 1900- Books
The basic principles for pharmacopoeial tests / by F. Reimers ; [translated from the Danish by Marry E. Andersen and Vagn Andersen].
Reimers, F.Date: 1956- Books
A companion to the British pharmacopoeia : comparing the strength of the various preparations with those of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin, United States and other foreign pharmacopoeias with practical hints on prescribing / by Peter Squire.
Squire, Peter.Date: 1864