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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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.
Catalogue
- Books
Drug adulteration: detection and control in nineteenth-century Britain / Ernst W. Stieb, with the collaboration of Glenn Sonnedecker.
Stieb, Ernst Walter, 1929-2015.Date: 1966- Books
Drug adulteration : detection and control in Canada. I, Beginnings / by Ernst W. Stieb and Elizabeth J. Quance the Inland Revenue Act of 1875.
Stieb, Ernst W.Date: 1972- Books
Rotten rhubarb : drug adulteration prior to the mid-nineteenth century / C.M. Foust.
Foust, C. M.Date: 1988- Books
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Examinations of drugs, medicines, chemicals, &c : as to their purity and adulterations / By C.H. Peirce.
Peirce, C. H. (Charles Henry), 1814-1855.Date: 1853- Books
A history of government regulation of adulteration and misbranding of food / Peter Barton Hutt, Peter Barton Hutt II.
Hutt, Peter Barton, II.Date: 1984