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Age of Intoxication Breen Benjamin Eating the flesh of an Egyptian mummy prevents the plague. A Turkish drink called coffee increases alertness. Distilled poppies reduce melancholy. Such beliefs…
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Age of Intoxication Breen Benjamin
Eating the flesh of an Egyptian mummy prevents the plague. A Turkish drink called coffee increases alertness. Distilled poppies reduce melancholy.
Such beliefs circulated in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, an era when the term drug encompassed everything from herbs and spices--like nutmeg, cinnamon, and chamomile--to such deadly poisons as lead, mercury, and arsenic. Tobacco cures cancer. In The Age of Intoxication, Benjamin Breen offers a window into a time when drugs were not yet separated into categories--illicit and licit, recreational and medicinal, modern and traditional--and there was no barrier between the drug dealer and the pharmacist.Focusing on the Portuguese colonies in Brazil and Angola and on the imperial capital of Lisbon, Breen examines the process by which novel drugs were located, commodified, and consumed.
He then turns his attention to the
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