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Just drugs

Drugs, poisons and the contents of your doctor’s bag: they’re all the same
brew. John Mann’s wonderfully readable Murder, Magic and Medicine, now out in a
revised edition, tracks the substances from shaman to pharmacy, and poisoned
arrow to junkie’s hypodermic. Published by Oxford University Press, £9.99,
ISBN 0198507445.

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