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姜、蒜、葱 Ginger, garlic and spring onions
Nina Mingya Powles felt adrift in the UK, living thousands of miles from home. But nurturing familiar tastes and smells in her tiny balcony garden helped her roots begin to grow.
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Between two summers
As Michael Malay tends his allotment, absorbing all the sensations of his surroundings, he finds the repetition of work calms the mind.
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The house of Joan
The longueurs of hospital stays and enforced inactivity were the spur to Joan’s precise tailoring skills and flamboyant creations, all to the benefit of her fashion-loving sisters.
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Specification of Frederic Philippi : smelling bottles.
Philippi, Frederic.Date: 1873- Ephemera
Price's Glycerine : obtained by distillation under their patented processes, is free from arsenic, lead, and earthy salts; and also from bad smelling volatile fatty acids ... / Price's Patent Candle Company Limited.
Price's Patent Candle CompanyDate: [approximately 1895]- Books
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Perfumes and their preparation : containing complete directions for making handkerchief perfumes, smelling-salts ... cosmetics, hair dyes, and other toilet articles ... / by George William Askinson ; translated from the third German edition by Isidor Furst ; with corrections and additions by several experts.
Date: 1892- Pictures
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Roderick Random's fellow surgeon's mate approaching their new captain for the post of surgeon while docked in Jamaica; the foppish Captain Whiffle has fainted due to Morgan's appearance and odour, his entourage try to revive him with smelling salts and lavender water. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1793, after himself, after T. Smollett, c. 1750.
Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771.Date: Publish's as the Act directs 1 June 1793Reference: 11210i- Archives and manuscripts
Vaporole (first aid for gas poisoning)
Date: c. 1940?Reference: WF/M/PL/411Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd