Editor's Desk

Most travellers carry their toiletries in something inadequate - a plastic supermarket bag, an old gym pouch, a hotel-provided pouch from a previous stay, or a cheap synthetic case bought at an air...

Your leather toiletry bag was invented by plague doctors trying not to die. During the Black Death in 1348, plague doctors created the first "medicus sacculus" (medical pouch) to survive treating p...