We’ve just returned from a brief holiday visiting family in Alice Springs, which included a two day stopover in Adelaide on the way. While we were strolling through the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, we came across the Santos Museum of Economic
Babies on the bottle
As I’ve been doing the research for my next book, which is set in Perth in the early 1900’s, I’ve been surprised, and horrified, to discover the remedies recommended at the time for babies who were unwell with “summer diarrhoea”.