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Arsenic and old faces
Arsenic was reputed to give a youthful, wrinkle-free complexion, so 1890s entrepreneurs started advertising arsenic pills and soaps.
May 10
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Caroline Rance
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Eight years in cocaine hell
A Chicago society lady suffered a disastrous change in her fortunes when she tried to cure a cold.
May 3
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Caroline Rance
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April 2024
The woman who turned to charcoal
A unique medical condition was not all it seemed in 1860s New York.
Apr 26
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Caroline Rance
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'Give the man his finger!'
An amateur anatomist got into trouble for detaining an amputated finger.
Apr 19
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Caroline Rance
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Plague, peril and reform: John Howard's quarantine journey
Eighteenth-century prison reformer John Howard set out to experience the grim reality of Venice’s quarantine laws.
Apr 12
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Caroline Rance
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Defeating the death microbe
A story did the rounds in 1895 that a newly discovered bacterium was the only thing standing between humans and immortality.
Apr 5
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Caroline Rance
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March 2024
'The knowledge of things': Jane Sharp's art of midwifery
Jane Sharp's 1671 'The Midwives Book' used humour and common sense to educate women about pregnancy and birth.
Mar 29
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Caroline Rance
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Hooked on a cure: a tale of tapeworm troubles
A gentleman in 18th-century France went to horrifying lengths to cure himself of a worm infestation
Mar 22
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Caroline Rance
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The teeth stuck out like so many tusks
The case of a terrible set of dentures amused a court hearing in Victorian Wiltshire.
Mar 15
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Caroline Rance
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Nellie Bly in the mad-house
Nellie Bly's investigative journalism revealed the shocking truth about the treatment of women deemed insane.
Mar 8
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Caroline Rance
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‘Making people well and making people laugh’
At the age of 15, a lad from Anglesey set off to achieve his ambition of becoming a doctor.
Mar 1
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Caroline Rance
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February 2024
The champion malingerer
A young man in late Victorian England used his ingenuity to be allowed to stay in bed.
Feb 23
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Caroline Rance
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