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The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade by Benjamin BreenRequirements: .MP3 reader, 225.4 MBOverview: 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 17th and 18th centuries, an era when the term […]

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