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Regency Health and Medicine: Remedy for Extreme Child’s Cough

By Anne | May 8, 2024 - 8:23 am |May 18, 2024 Regency Health and Medicine

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This recipe appeared in The Ladies Best Companion; Or, a Golden Treasure for the Fair Sex (1800).

Regency Advertisements: The Domestic Pharmacopeia

By Anne | February 18, 2024 - 7:30 am |February 23, 2024 Regency Advertisements, Regency Health and Medicine

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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

By Anne | November 26, 2023 - 11:12 am |December 12, 2023 Regency Health and Medicine, Regency Science and Invention

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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 →