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Regency Reader Questions: Gunshot Wounds and Memory Loss

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Moniker/Name: Mia Source of Question: Research Your Question: I am currently writing my own Regency book and I was wondering what a physician would do Continue →

Regency Advertisements: Miracle Vegetable Syrup

By Anne | February 4, 2018 - 7:45 am |February 8, 2018 Regency Health and Medicine

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Carton of vegetable syrup seller being jeered by crowd of men in wigs

Appearing in the 1808 La Belle Assemblee, this ad promoted Mr. Swainson’s miracle vegetable syrup. Swainson was called a “radical quack” who sold vegetable syrups Continue →

Regency Health and Medicine: Sleep

By Anne | January 30, 2018 - 7:36 am |February 6, 2018 Regency Health and Medicine

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Painting of a woman asleep with book in hand

Sleep was recognized, early on, as an important part of keeping healthy. From (1828) The book of health: Historian Roger Ekirch published a paper Continue →