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Ginger’s role in cures and courtroom battles
Some people will use a dose of ginger to help with hangovers – but it hasn’t always been a friend to the thirsty.
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My important, ridiculous nose
The nose is a much-maligned appendage, but it’s a powerful organ capable of invoking powerful emotions from past memories and sexual attraction.
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The principles of psychology / by Herbert Spencer.
Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903.Date: 1870-72- Books
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The crown and glory of Christianity: or, the young man's guide thro' the wilderness of this world: with a drop of honey from the rock of Christ. Written by W. Ross; and set forth for the Good of all Christian Families.
Date: [1790?]- Pictures
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A figure composed of barrels batters the drooping head of a thistle; representing the forced resignation of Lord Melville following implications of malversation and the vote on Whitbread's motion. Aquatint by J. Sayer, 1805.
Sayers, James, 1748-1823.Date: 26 June 1805Reference: 25936i- Books
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The strange and wonderful predictions of the Reverend martyr Mr. Christopher Love, Minister of the gospel at Laurence-Jury, London, Who was beheaded on Tower Hill, in the time of Oliver Cromwell's government of England. Giving an account of Babylon's fall, or the destruction of Popery, and in that glorious event, a general reformation over all the world. Also two letters from his wise to him a little before his death, with his letter and directions to her again, Aug. 22. 1651, the day of his glorification. To which is added, Some Meditations for drooping believers when death is near.
Love, Christopher, 1618-1651.Date: 1786- Ephemera
For the benefit of the afflicted : the late celebrated Dr. Ratcliffe's most wonderful cleansing and strengthening drops, for all sorts of gleets and seminal weaknesses and imbecilities of the generative parts and faculties, preventing miscarriages in women; they also cleanse and strengthen the reins, kidnies, and bladder, cure weak backs, stranguries, gravel, and stoppage of the urine, and are a certain cure for the bleeding piles, and for which it has gained such repute, that near 90,000 bottles have been sold since April 1743, that they were first published.
Date: [1775?]