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The Age of Intoxication Origins of the Global Drug Trade (The Early Modern Americas)

Benjamin Breen

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 seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, an era when the term "drug" encompassed everything from herbs...

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He mentioned his earlier book, noting that it had won a 2021 medal from the American Association for the History of Medicine.

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His previous book, The Age of Intoxication, Origins of the Global Drug Trade, won a medal in 2021 from the American Association for the History of Medicine.

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He mentioned his earlier book, noting that it had won a 2021 medal from the American Association for the History of Medicine.

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His previous book, The Age of Intoxication, Origins of the Global Drug Trade, won a medal in 2021 from the American Association for the History of Medicine.

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The host mentioned it as Breen's previous book, noting that it won a 2021 medal from the American Association for the History of Medicine.

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His previous book, The Age of Intoxication, Origins of the Global Drug Trade, won a medal in 2021 from the American Association for the History of Medicine.

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