Stories
- In pictures
How an animation educated the army
In a 1940s cartoon intended to persuade US troops to take malaria medication, the makers pitted a clodhopping soldier against a wily mosquito. If only Private SNAFU had followed the government’s advice.
- In pictures
Drugs, space travel and the ‘age of promise’
Space-age wonder drug Terramycin promised utopia, but might instead have triggered one of the biggest threats to our future.
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Deadly doses and the hardest of hard drugs
The invention of the modern hypodermic syringe meant we could get high – or accidentally die – faster than before. Find out how this medical breakthrough was adapted for deadly uses.
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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.
Catalogue
- Books
Animal origin drugs used in Unani medicine / S.B. Vohora, S.Y. Khan.
Vohora, S. B., 1940-Date: [1979], ©1979- Books
Animal behavior under the influence of psycho-active drugs : proceedings of a conference at the National Institute of Public Health, Bilthoven, on September 1, 1972.
Conference on Animal Behavior under the Influence of Psycho-active Drugs (1972 : Bilthoven, Netherlands)Date: [1972]- Books
The contribution of classical pharmacological methods to the understanding of psychoactive drugs / W.D.M. Paton.
Paton, William D. M.Date: [1974?]- Ephemera
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Genuine Dalmatian insect powder for the destruction of insects : quite harmless to animal life but effectually destroys every tribe of insect.
Date: [between 1890 and 1899?]- Ephemera
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Genuine Dalmatian insect powder for the destruction of insects : quite harmless to animal life but effectually destroys every tribe of insect.
Date: [between 1890 and 1899?]