Category Archives: Regency Health and Medicine

Regency Reader Questions: Family Planning

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After I put the call out on Twitter for some Regency Reader Questions to give me some new post ideas, I got a thought provoking Continue →

Regency Men: Sake Dean Mahomed

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Brighton's Baths

Sake Dean Mahomed (also Sheikh Din Muhammad) was born in Patna, India in 1759 and lived into his early 90s, dying in Brighton in 1851.  Continue →

Regency Advertisements: Troublesome Freckles and Facial Hair

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The ad appeared in the April 1817 issue of Ackermann’s Repository.  According to Plucked: A History of Hair Removal (Herzig, 2015) in the early 19th Continue →