Regency Reader

Regency Health and Medicine: Sleep

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

Comments Off

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 Health and Medicine: Mercurial Ointment

By Anne | November 14, 2017 - 5:04 pm |November 28, 2017 Regency Health and Medicine

Comments Off

Domestic Medicine, Or, A Valuable Treatise on the Prevention and Cure (1804) Found this recipe for mercury ointment (!) in a 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

Comments Off

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 →

Regency Health and Medicine: A Receipt for Pomade Divine

By Anne | July 8, 2017 - 7:45 am |July 18, 2017 Regency Dish, Regency Health and Medicine

Comments Off

The New Practice of Cookery, Pastry, Baking, and Preserving (1804) A multipurpose skin balm for a variety of ailments, Pommade Divine is still made today Continue →