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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: Gargles

By Anne | July 30, 2016 - 8:25 am |August 23, 2016 Regency Health and Medicine

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Although a “trifling” class of medicine, gargles were employed during the Regency to help allieviate symptoms like sore throats, dry mouth, or simply a dirty Continue →

Regency Health and Medicine: Green Sickness or the Virgin’s Disease

By Anne | June 10, 2016 - 12:40 pm |June 23, 2016 Regency Health and Medicine

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The Village doctor; or, The art of curing diseases rendered familiar and …, 1825 I was reading about pimples in 1825, and stumbled upon this Continue →

Regency Health and Medicine: Herbs for Agues

By Anne | April 16, 2016 - 9:33 pm |May 4, 2016 Regency Health and Medicine

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Typically associated with the chills and fever of malaria, the Pocket Companion to Culpeper’s Herbal, or English physician (1820) describes such a variety of agues Continue →