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Regency Health and Medicine: Mercurial Ointment

By Anne | November 14, 2017 - 5:04 pm |November 28, 2017 Regency Health and Medicine

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Domestic Medicine, Or, A Valuable Treatise on the Prevention and Cure (1804) Found this recipe for mercury ointment (!) in a Continue →

Regency Advertisements: For All You Military Men…

By Anne | October 18, 2017 - 7:53 am |November 15, 2021 Regency Advertisements, Regency Health and Medicine, Regency Men

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Now the “oldest cosmetics manufacturer in the UK” (http://johngosnell.com/about-us/history/) dating back to 1677, during the Regency era the company of Price & Gosnell had a Continue →

Regency Advertisements: Lost Happiness Regained (in other words, abortions)

By Anne | August 28, 2017 - 8:02 am |November 15, 2021 Regency Advertisements, Regency Health and Medicine

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I learn the most interesting things about Regency society reading the advertisments. Take this week’s knowledge on book prices, or when I learned powdered drinks Continue →

Regency Health and Medicine: A Receipt for Pomade Divine

By Anne | July 8, 2017 - 7:45 am |July 18, 2017 Regency Dish, Regency Health and Medicine

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The New Practice of Cookery, Pastry, Baking, and Preserving (1804) A multipurpose skin balm for a variety of ailments, Pommade Divine is still made today Continue →