Regency Health and Medicine: Removing Tight Rings, Hiccups, Chilbains, and Other Home Remedies

A group of merry, dancing former invalids discarding their medicines in favour of alcohol as a cure. Coloured aquatint by G. Hunt, 1827, after T. Lane.

The Servants’ Guide and Family Manual: with New and Improved Receipts … Adapted to the Duties of All Classes of Servants … To which is Continue

Regency Health and Medicine: Breast Feeding

I recently found and am really enjoying this website collection and context for James Gillray’s work: https://www.james-gillray.org/ where I found this print and discussion. The Continue

Regency Health and Medicine: Menopause

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