Stories
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Chemical highs and psychedelic research
Could recreational drugs make you happy? Kate Wilkinson explores why keen clubber Simon believes taking psychedelics has helped him develop as a person.
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Diagnosed bipolar, prescribed lithium
In the first part of a series looking into lithium, Laura Grace Simpkins recounts the beginning of her troubled relationship with this mysterious drug.
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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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Coleridge’s hypochondria
An intense focus on his own bodily sensations led poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge to self-medicate with narcotics. But this fascination also put Coleridge ahead of the medical sensibilities of his day.
Catalogue
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Observations on the use and abuse of mercurial medicines in various diseases / by James Hamilton.
Hamilton, James, 1767-1839.Date: 1819- Books
Histoire thérapeutique du mercure et de ses composés / [Abel Pillot].
Pillot, Abel.Date: 1910- Books
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De largiorum calomelanos dosium usu atque effectu : dissertatio inauguralis physiologico-therapeutica ... / auctor Albertus Lesser.
Lesser, Albert.Date: 1847- Books
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Observations on the use and abuse of mercurial medicines in various diseases / by James Hamilton.
Hamilton, James, 1767-1839.Date: 1819- Books
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Learned quackery exposed, or the difference shown between poisons and medicines / compiled by Alanson Mosher.
Mosher, Alanson.Date: 1846