Read the full story by Jim Oldfield:

• Of healing and henbane: what a medieval sedative says about modern medicine
  Using modern pharmacokinetics to assess drug known as the “Great Rest”
  U of T News | August 21, 2014

 

Three historians were interviewed on CBC Radio’s the Current  on the 100^th anniversary of the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and the beginning of the First World War. University of Toronto’s Jennifer Jenkins spoke on Germany, Tim Cook, of the Canadian War Museum on Canada, and Thomas Otte, University of East Anglia on Great Britain.