Regency Health and Medicine – Page 19

Regency Health and Medicine: Green Sickness or the Virgin’s Disease

By Anne | June 10, 2016 - 12:40 pm |June 23, 2016 Regency Health and Medicine

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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 →

Regency Fashion: Skincare Advice

By Anne | May 18, 2016 - 8:25 am |December 13, 2020 Regency Fashion, Regency Health and Medicine

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La Belle Assemblee, 1806

Regency Health and Medicine: Herbs for Agues

By Anne | April 16, 2016 - 9:33 pm |May 4, 2016 Regency Health and Medicine

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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 →

Regency Culture and Society: Farriery

By Anne | September 24, 2015 - 8:57 am |October 6, 2015 Regency Culture and Society, Regency Customs, Regency Health and Medicine

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The London Encyclopaedia (1829). The etymology of farrier is somewhat up for debate, but one explanation is that it is a combination of Latin words Continue →