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304 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780812251784
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 20 December 2019
Description
Eating the flesh of an Egyptian mummy prevents the plague. Distilled poppies reduce melancholy. A Turkish drink called coffee increases alertness. Tobacco cures cancer. Such beliefs circulated in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, an era wh...
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304 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780812251784
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 20 December 2019
Description
Eating the flesh of an Egyptian mummy prevents the plague. Distilled poppies reduce melancholy. A Turkish drink called coffee increases alertness. Tobacco cures cancer. Such beliefs circulated in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, an era wh...