Category Archives: Regency Health and Medicine

Regency Advertisements: The Domestic Pharmacopeia

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This ad appeared in the March 1806 issue of La Belle Assemblée. From my research, while there were similar tomes printed in later years, this Continue →

Regency Science and Invention: Smallpox Vaccine

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British physician Edward Jenner (1749-1823) is credited with the invention of the first vaccine to be administered against a contagious disease. Pioneering the concept of Continue →