Regency Health and Medicine: Gargles
Although a “trifling” class of medicine, gargles were employed during the Regency to help allieviate symptoms like sore throats, dry mouth, or simply a dirty Continue
Although a “trifling” class of medicine, gargles were employed during the Regency to help allieviate symptoms like sore throats, dry mouth, or simply a dirty Continue
The Village doctor; or, The art of curing diseases rendered familiar and …, 1825 I was reading about pimples in 1825, and stumbled upon this Continue
La Belle Assemblee, 1806
Typically associated with the chills and fever of malaria, the Pocket Companion to Culpeper’s Herbal, or English physician (1820) describes such a variety of agues Continue