Stories
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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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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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Love, longing and tea from the polski sklep
For people of Polish origin in the UK, herbal tea is closely tied to health and shared history. Kasia Tomasiewicz explores her changing relationship to these tea-related cultural habits.
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Colonialism and the origins of skin bleaching
The widespread practice of skin bleaching was heavily influenced by the Western colonisation and slavery of African and South Asian countries. Ngunan Adamu explores this toxic history.
Catalogue
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The history and therapeutical value of arsenic in skin diseases / by Malcolm Morris.
Morris, Malcolm Alexander, 1849-1924.Date: [1880]- Books
Brain chemistry and the French connection, 1791-1841 : an account of the chemical analyses of the human brain by Thouret (1791), Fourcroy (1793), Vauquelin (1811), Couerbe (1834), and Frémy (1841) : a second sourcebook in the history of neurochemistry / Donald B. Tower.
Tower, Donald B. (Donald Bayley), 1919-2007.Date: [1994]- Books
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Histoire des accouchements chez tous les peuples / par G.-J. Witkowski.
Date: [1887]- Pictures
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A horse-drawn hearse pulls away from a doctor's; representing the dire state of the medical establishment according to James Morison, pill-vendor and self-styled 'Hygeian'. Lithograph, c. 1848.
Reference: 18139iPart of: Hygeian illustration- Audio
Book of the week. Forensics, the Anatomy of Crime 2/5.
Date: 2014