Regency Health and Medicine

Regency Health and Medicine: A Dangerous Remedy for Corpulence

By Anne | March 16, 2026 - 7:12 am |April 9, 2026 Regency Health and Medicine

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The Art of Beauty; Or, the Best Methods of Improving and Preserving the Shape, Carriage, and Complexion. Together with the Theory of Beauty. (1825). United Kingdom: Knight and Continue →

Regency Health and Medicine: Menopause

By Anne | November 30, 2025 - 8:00 am |December 16, 2025 Regency Health and Medicine

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I expanded my social media content over the summer to help share some of the history I had learned researching Masquerade Balls in Regency Britain, Continue →

Regency Beauty: Wash Balls

By Anne | April 26, 2025 - 7:13 am |May 4, 2025 Regency Beauty, Regency Health and Medicine

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Wash balls, infrequently also called soap balls, were common for centuries before the Regency, but they would have been a normal part of bathing, shaving, Continue →

Regency Health and Medicine: Cholera Pandemic 1 and 2

By Anne | March 6, 2025 - 7:58 am |March 31, 2025 Regency Events, Regency Health and Medicine

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In 1817, the first cholera pandemic broke out Kolkata (also known as Calcutta). Between 1817 and 1824, it spread through Southeast Asisa to the Middle Continue →