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Inhaling happiness and gasping for a high

The rapid, short-lived high we get from whippets, reefers and vapes can be accompanied by long-term health consequences. The search is on for safer ways to get stoned.

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Titans in the landscape

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Indian botanicals and heritage wars

Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.

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Would you like to buy a unicorn?

The story behind why somebody tried to sell Henry Wellcome a unicorn head in 1928.

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  • English mastiff standing in a field with a forest in the background. Etching by J. E. Ridinger.
  • Culpeper's English physician ; and complete herbal ... Illustrated with notes and observations, critical and explanatory / By E. Sibly.
  • Culpeper's English physician ; and complete herbal ... Illustrated with notes and observations, critical and explanatory / By E. Sibly.
  • Two English par-force dogs and two German hunting-hounds resting in a forest. Etching by J. E. Ridinger.
  • Bot. of E. & A. Purser , purveyors of English meat, fish, game, poultry & provision stores : 127, & 129, High Street, Slough : Windsor & Maidenhead : proprietors of dairies ... / E. & A. Purser.
  • English hospital in Beira, Mozambique: staff, patients and the Lady Superintendent, Mrs. Goodman. Ink wash and gouache drawing by F. C. Dickinson, 1901, after E. Watts.
  • Exclusive engagement of the tallest man in the world, Albert Brough, The English Giant : eight feet in height and well proportioned ... / South London Palace, London Road, S.E.
  • An Egyptian hieroglyphic dictionary : With an index of English words, king list and geographical list with indexes, list of hieroglyphic characters, Coptic and Semitic alphabets, etc / by Sir E.A. Wallis Budge.
  • Silver hearts, half-hearts and droplets interpersed with German and English sex-related words; advertising safe sex. Colour lithograph by John Lindell and Frank Wagner for the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V.
  • Memphis, Egypt: English travellers trapped in catacombs find the bodies of two Italian men who had previously been trapped there, and had starved to death: they fire their pistols at six ghostly figures; Arabs steal their horses. Etching with engraving by E. Kirkall, 1709.
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