Category Archives: Regency Health and Medicine

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 →

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

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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 →