Cocaine, arsenic, heroin, lead, there's no better way to start your day here at the Victorian pharmacy! Find out all the ways your pharmacist could kill you in the 1800's!

Further Reading

• Opium and laudanum history’s wonder drugs
• 10 Dubious Victorian Cures From the First Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
• 7 of the Most Outrageous Medical Treatments in History
• Cocaine, the Victorian wonder drug
• Drugs in Victorian Britain
• Rampant Murder Created The Pharmacy Business

The Victorian Pharmacy TV show

Further episodes of For the Love of History

Further podcasts by Tehya F.

Website of Tehya F.