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Leaflet or magazine insert advertising bars of toilet soap with "a very small quantity of arsenic" to nourish the skin, whiten the hands and improve the complexion. It was "guaranteed absolutely ...

The initial deposit, sections A-K, consists mainly of correspondence and associated papers (leaflets, memoranda, extracts from minutes, etc.). There are two main series of correspondence: "People" and ...

Thirst is a universal human experience shared with most living beings. With only 3% of the water on Earth being freshwater, our land thirsts too. 'Thirst: In Search of Freshwater' explores humanity’s ...

Short-wave therapy : the medical uses of electrical high frequencies / by Erwin Schliephake ; authorized English translation by R. King Brown from the third German edition ; with foreword by Elkin P.

At the heart of this approach was the belief that foul air caused tuberculosis. Despite Robert Koch’s discovery of the TB germ, Mycobacterium tuberculosis in 1882, the foul-air theory continued to ...

Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-378) and index. Habeas corpus : an introduction / Jack Selzer. -- Contemporary U.S. memorial sites as exemplars of rhetoric's materiality / Carole Blair. -- ...

Works in this archive created by the Bowlby family are available under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Please be aware that works in this archive created by other organisations and individuals are not covered ...

Tobacco is a nightshade plant first introduced to Europe in the 16th century. The leaf had been widely used for centuries by the peoples of North and South America, where smoking formed an important ...

London ; New York : Published for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 1971- ...

The hazards to men in ships lost at sea, 1940-44 / R.A. McCance [and others].

Title continues: Published in "Ways of knowing: Science and Mysticism Today" Ed. Chris Clark. Imprint Academic 2005: ISBN 1 84540 0127. Title from cover. Copy 1. Donor: Arts for Health ...