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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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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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Virtual reality and the fix of the future
Virtual reality, with its complex sensory tricks, takes us beyond the real world. Find out how these potentially addictive experiences can harm us – or might even have therapeutic uses.
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Booze and bad behaviour
Our love of alcohol is like a party that’s lasted nine centuries. But there are signs that the demon drink is losing its appeal.
Catalogue
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By the King : a proclamation commanding the due execution of the lawes made against eating and selling of flesh in Lent, and other times prohibited.
England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I)Date: M.DC.XXXI [1631, i.e. 1632]- Books
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Reasons humbly offered to the consideration of Parliament, why stock-fish and live eels should be imported into England : Notwithstanding the same being at present prohibited by the act, which prohibits the importation of Irish cattle and forreign fish.
Date: [between 1679 and 1680]- Books
Bibliotheca arcana : seu Catalogus librorum penetralium, being brief notices of books that have been secretly printed prohibited by law, seized, anathematised, burnt or Bowdlerised / by Speculator Morum.
Date: 1884-1885- Books
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Tuesday, September 20. 1659. Ordered by the Parliament, that all masters and governors of hospitals be, and are hereby prohibited to grant or renew any leases of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments belonging unto any of the said respective hospitals, until this House take further order.
England and Wales. ParliamentDate: 1659- Books
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A catalogue of curious but prohibited books, &c. chiefly modern: being the collection of a very eminent statesman, an Officer in the Customs, well known to the present Great Political World. Now upon sale to the best bidder. For the benefit of George Briton, a poor fatherless orphan.
Date: [1742?]