Stories
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Milk trails round Euston
Where cows once grazed near Wellcome Collection in London, baristas now froth their milk. Esther Leslie uncovers Euston’s dairy-based urban history.
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Nymphomania and hypersexuality in women and men
The history of nymphomania is closely bound with society's views on women and their sexuality.
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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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Dirt, disease and the Inspector of Nuisances
In the days when ‘bad air’ was thought to spread disease, dozens of Inspectors of Nuisances ceaselessly struggled against the perils of dirt – both visible and invisible.
Catalogue
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Adulterations detected; or, Plain instructions for the discovery of frauds in food and medicine / By Arthur Hill Hassall.
Hassall, Arthur Hill, 1817-1894.Date: 1857- Books
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Food : its adulterations, and the methods for their detection / by Arthur Hill Hassall.
Hassall, Arthur Hill, 1817-1894.Date: 1876- Books
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The tricks of the trade in the adulterations of food and physic : with directions for their detection and counteraction.
Date: 1856- Books
Food adulteration : the demonic onslaught on health / Vinita Katiyar.
Katiyar, VinitaDate: [2013]- Books
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Deadly adulteration and slow poisoning, or, Disease and death in the pot and the bottle; in which the blood-empoisoning and life-destroying adulterations of wines, spirits, beer, bread, flour, tea, sugar, spices, cheesemongery, pastry, confectionary medicines, &c. &c. &c. are laid open to the public, with tests or methods for the ascertaining and detecting the fraudulent and deleterious adulterations and the good and bad qualities of those articles : with an exposé of medical empiricism and imposture, quacks and quackery, regular and irregular, legitimate and illegitimate: and the frauds and mal-practices of pawn-brokers and madhouse keepers / By an enemy of fraud and villainy.
Date: [1829?]