The Quickest and Wickedest Cocktailing in the Fin de Siècle
Picture the heavenly death of lab rats subjected to absinthe tests, like those reported in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal of 1894: “The...
“An Orgy of Candy Gluttony”
A Cup of Chocolate (1844), by Charles Beranger
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At nine o’clock the next morning his servant came in with a...
Firefly Diamonds
Illuminated copper engraving, 1705, by Maria Sibylla Merian. Wikimedia Commons.
The traveling bug lover, in the earliest days of insect study, brought back from foreign...