Season 1 · Episode 1
The Apothecary Diaries · S1E1
Aired on October 22, 2023
Science entries in this episode
Lead White Makeup
Ceruse is lead carbonate: worn daily, it caused slow lead poisoning. The symptoms, why it killed nursing infants, and the palace curse in The Apothecary Diaries.
Physic Garden
The physic garden is the cradle of plant-based pharmacopoeia. Monasteries, universities, imperial China: the history of a centuries-old place of knowledge.