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The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade Five Percenters whose ambition is to beEating the flesh of an Egyptian mummy prevents the plague. Distilled poppies reduce melancholy. A Turkish drink called coffee increases alertness. Tobacco cures cancer. Such beliefs circulated in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, an era when the term "drug" encompassed everything from herbs and spiceslike nutmeg, cinnamon, and chamomileto such deadly poisons as lead, mercury, and arsenic. In The Age of Intoxication, Benjamin Breen offers a