“In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Down to a sunless sea ...” Opium has been known since at least 3400 BCE, when the Sumerians produced the ...
One of the elements of dramatic tension in the wonderful Master and Commander series of books is the relationship between the brilliant and resourceful ship’s surgeon, Dr. Maturin, and the laudanum ...
In general, burlesque performers, like the late Rodney Dangerfield, “can’t get no respect,” but that doesn’t seem to be the case in Asheville, where audiences apparently understand that, instead of ...
A newly released educational resource examines what laudanum is, how it has been used historically, and the ways it affects people who are exposed to opioid-based substances. The article, published on ...
Food52, which recently relaunched as Food1852, is everything a modern food publication should be — online, crowdsourced, full of ideas about canning, chicken coops, churning butter, preparing possum ...
The North Water is a thrilling adventure series on BBC Two that follows a crew of whale hunters across the Arctic. One of the crew members on The Volunteer is veteran surgeon Patrick Sumner (played by ...
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