Regency Health and Medicine: Ointments for Itch

These recipes appeared in The Ladies Best Companion; Or, a Golden Treasure for the Fair Sex (1800).
These recipes appeared in The Ladies Best Companion; Or, a Golden Treasure for the Fair Sex (1800).
This ad appeared in the August 1817 issue of La Belle Assemblée.
The first friction matchstick was invented in England by John Walker in 1827, after years of experimentation. Walker was a chemist/druggist Continue
– The Art of Cookery (1803) The orange flower water is an interesting touch. I had to look up “collops” and some sources suggest it Continue