A Teaspoon of Silence: The Case of Godfrey’s Cordial, the Drug that Put a Century of Children to Sleep
How a sweet opium syrup became a symbol of lost childhood in Victorian Britain England, 1845 – In North Marston, a small village in Buckinghamshire, night has already fallen. The air is damp and heavy with coal smoke. In a house of blackened brick, a young mother holds her eleven-week-old …