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Regency Health and Medicine: Vegetable Infusions

By Anne | July 8, 2018 - 7:42 am |July 13, 2018 Regency Health and Medicine

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Homespun medicine may involve a variety of lotions and potions for wellness. Here are a variety of vegetable infusions that promise to cure any manner Continue →

Regency Health and Medicine: Walking and Women’s Feeble Arms

By Anne | April 16, 2018 - 7:45 am |April 25, 2018 Regency Health and Medicine

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I stumbled upon this brief review of the powers of walking as exercise. It has some remarkably sexist things to say about men and women, Continue →

Regency Health and Medicine: Sleep

By Anne | January 30, 2018 - 7:36 am |February 6, 2018 Regency Health and Medicine

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Painting of a woman asleep with book in hand

Sleep was recognized, early on, as an important part of keeping healthy. From (1828) The book of health: Historian Roger Ekirch published a paper 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 →