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Health

Prohibition that Worked: China’s 1950s Anti-Opium Campaign, History’s Most Successful Anti-Drug Effort
Humbug Billy and the 1858 Bradford Sweets Poisoning: A Disaster That Shocked – and Transformed – Britain
Typhoid Mary, and How Far Government Can Go to Protect Public Health
Dromomania: The Uncontrollable Travel Phenomenon That Swept Nineteenth Century France
Myths and Realities: Did Medieval People Avoid Water and Drink Alcohol Instead?
The Math Mistake That Made Spinach a Super Food
Victorians Feared that High Train Speeds Might Make Women’s Uteruses Fly Out of Their Bodies
Fat Men’s Clubs – When Obesity Was Celebrated, and Thin Was Not In