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Black pepper to fuel fiery fights and cure haemorrhoids

This common condiment was once very valuable and, until surprisingly recently, used as a versatile medicine.

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Native Americans through the 19th-century lens

The stories behind Rinehart's photographs may not be as black and white as they first appear.

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Finding out where my lithium comes from

The origins of the lithium Laura Grace Simpkins swallows daily are unclear. If we don’t know the provenance of our pills, how can we make informed decisions about them?

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Doctors and the English seaside

Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.

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  • Robert Johnson. Line engraving by R. White, 1684.
  • Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by Robert White, 1677.
  • Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by Robert White, 1677.
  • Robert Morison. Line engraving by R. White, 1680, after W. Sonmans.
  • The naked bodies of a white woman and a black man representing an advertisement for safe sex by the Life Foundation. Colour lithograph by Robert Joyce and Neal Izumi.
  • A group of men standing with a large white cow; one of the men is Robert Koch, about to experiment on the animal, during the epidemic of plague in Bombay. Photograph attributed to Captain C. Moss, 1897.
  • Portrait of John Browne, aged '42'
  • John Browne. Line engraving by R. White, 1684.
  • John Partridge. Line engraving by R. White, 1679, after himself.
  • Samuel Gilbert. Line engraving by R. White, 1682 [?].
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