Category Archives: Regency Health and Medicine

Regency Health and Medicine: The Salubrious Properties of the Strawberry

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According to this brief published in the 1825 December’s edition of Ackermann’s Repository, strawberries have medicinal properties for your mouth:

Regency Health and Medicine: Vegetable Infusions

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Homespun medicine may involve a variety of lotions and potions for wellness. Here are a variety of vegetable infusions that promise to cure any manner Continue →

Regency Health and Medicine: Walking and Women’s Feeble Arms

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I stumbled upon this brief review of the powers of walking as exercise.  It has some remarkably sexist things to say about men and women, Continue →