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Ladies and Gentlemen’s Pocket Companion, 1800

Avoiding all misplaced familiarity, he calls her Miss until returning from church, on the day of marriage.

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Medical Hints, Designed for the Use of Clergymen, and Others, in Places Where Professional Advice Cannot Be Immediately Procured, 1820

Opium is often a very great comfort to mankind from the relief it affords in many diseases which cannot be cured.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, December 4, 1880

The man offering this sage advice, Henry Labouchere, might be better known for helping bring to pass the Labouchere Amendment, which made any homosexual acts or behaviour (not just sodomy, as previously, and which had to be actually proven) illegal in Britain and much easier to prosecute. Oscar Wilde was prosecuted in large part due to the passage and Alan Turing’s hormone therapy (chemical castration) was his punishment for violating the Labouchere Amendment.