“Here is the one man for whom she had been praying”
― Disease & History: From ancient times to Covid-19
― Disease & History: From ancient times to Covid-19
“Knowing the poison is never the same as knowing the killer.”
― The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
― The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
“London had to wait until the Great Exhibition of 1851 before any public lavatories were provided.”
― Disease & History: From ancient times to Covid-19
― Disease & History: From ancient times to Covid-19
“Buddha suggested as much when he told his monks, “‘Actions exist, and also their consequences, but the person that acts does not.”
― Rational Mysticism: Spirituality Meets Science in the Search for Enlightenment
― Rational Mysticism: Spirituality Meets Science in the Search for Enlightenment
“By 1830 no large manufacturing town in England possessed water entirely safe to drink and rivers in these areas had become so polluted that fish could no longer survive.”
― Disease & History: From ancient times to Covid-19
― Disease & History: From ancient times to Covid-19
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