Stories
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The poor child’s nurse
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
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How Indigenous insight inspires sustainable science
The forest of the Amazon Basin is inextricably bound up with the lives of the Indigenous peoples living there. Find out how they feel about the forest, use what it provides, and try to protect it from aggressive commercial exploitation.
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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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Drugs in Victorian Britain
Many common remedies were taken throughout the 19th century, with more people than ever using them. What was the social and cultural context of this development?
Catalogue
- Books
Patent medicines / by A. J. Clark.
Clark, Alfred Joseph.Date: [1938]- Books
Patent medicines : an indictment / by Hugh Linstead.
Linstead, Hugh N. (Hugh Nicholas)Date: [1946]- Books
Patent medicines in nineteenth-century America / by John Parascandola.
Parascandola, John, 1941-Date: 1985- Books
Patent medicines and the self-help syndrome / James Harvey Young.
Young, James Harvey- Books
Patent medicines and the self-help syndrome / James Harvey Young.
Young, James HarveyDate: 1985