On Monday I blogged about debtors’ prisons, which people often confuse with poorhouses, the subject of today’s cheery blog. Debtors’ prisons and poorhouses were not the same thing, but were equally dismal places.
Poorhouses, or almshouses, existed in England from… Read More
In 1895, a scientist at the Bayer Company discovered that diluting morphine with acetyls produced a drug without the common morphine side effects. Bayer began producing this new drug, which it called “heroin.”