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Regency Advertisements: Infirmary for Dogs and Mr. Blaine

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MR BLAINE No 8 ARGYLE STREET OXFORD ROAD Professor of Animal Medicine Author of The Anatomy of the Horse A System of Veterinary Medicine A Treatise on the Distemper in Dogs & c & c Presuming from his long attention to the Diseases of Dogs that he has been enabled to make some considerable improvements in their medical treatment he beg leave therefore to inform the Public that he may be consulted on their various complaints at home abroad or by letter on the following teuins For consulting him at home 5 but should a freA quent repetition of his advice be necessary for the ani mal the value of the medicines only will be charged Consulting him by letter if one only 7s if repeated is each The charge for attendance abroad is regiilai d by circumstances as the distance number if visits & c In any ease where a single visit only is required unless very near home 75 but when there is a necessi y of his visits 53 each except when the distance is very small or the arrendances are necessarily very numerous when each other visit only will be charged Infirmary for Dogs Many persons not having conveniences at th ir own houses for sick dogs or wishing them under his imme liate care has induced Mr Blaine to fit up some coin murious apartments for their reception near his own houe where they are treated with the grea est care and tenderness

This ad appeared in the October 1806 La Belle Assemblee.  He also advertised in his own booklet A Domestic Treatise on the Diseases of Horses Continue →

Regency Men: The Eccentric Mad Jack

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Yep, that’s a dude riding a bear.  Yep, it really happened.  And no, its probably not the craziest thing John “Mad Jack” Mytton did. Born Continue →