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Regency Health and Medicine: Gargles

By Anne | September 18, 2018 - 7:12 am |September 25, 2018 Regency Health and Medicine

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My mother always swore by the salt water gargle to cure many ills, and I confess I frequently turn to it to address a sore Continue →

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 →