Since the dawn of time we humans have been a vain bunch. Records dating back thousands of years depict an abundance of information dedicated to appearances improvement.However, while today’s beauty treatments are regulated under a whole host of stringent measures – the potions and lotions of yesteryear were far less safe – and in actual fact; often lethal.
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Author Jeremy Clay tells the grisly story of the Victorian man killed by a bell-chiming automaton.There was no need for Sherlock. The killer didn’t flee […]
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A Most Singular Circumstance occurred at Mr Brooks’s, the surgeon, in Blenheim street on Saturday evening: – A coach stopped at the door where subjects […]
