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Acid and the sexual psychonauts

How LSD fuelled one woman’s journey of sexual self-discovery in the late 1950s.

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  • Edward Barry. Stipple engraving by J. Jones, 1789, after M. Brown.
  • Edward Rigby. Etching by Mrs D. Turner, 1816, after M. Sharp, 1815.
  • Michael Faraday and Mrs M. Faraday (?). Photograph by Henry Dixon & Sons Ltd.
  • Mrs K.M. Harley being decorated with Croix de Guerre
  • Jean Martin Charcot and Mrs J.M. Charcot (?). Process print.
  • Jones' sovereign remedy : for cows, with milk fever, chills, udder ill, and inflammation of the lungs : for horses, with chills, gripes, colics, and inflammation ... / R.M. Jones.
  • Mrs John Webb, being nursed when sick in bed with "a dead palsey, and ... convulsion in the nerves", before being cured by Sir William Read. Engraving by M. Burghers, ca. 1700.
  • Roger Casement and Mrs French Sheldon. On the back of this photograph is written 'Roger Casement and Mrs French Sheldon - Casement declaring that Germany would take and rule the Congo. Photograph by W.L. Royburgh, 1904'. The letters W.H.M.M, are also stamped onto the front and back of the photograph
  • A distressed young woman protests her innocence and prays before the judge and the counsel of the Spanish inquisition. Aquatint by J.P.M. Jazet, 1839, after S.J.E. Jones.
  • Collection des plantes usuelles, curieuses, et etŕangères, selon les systèmes de Mrs. Tournefort et Linnaeus. Tirées du Jardin du Roi, & de celui de MM. les Apothicaires de Paris, gravées & imprimées en couleur, & de leur forme naturelle, avec leurs fleurs, leurs fruits, leurs graines & leurs racines d'usages / par M. Gautier Dagoty].
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