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The Connection Between Vinegar and the Fainting Couch: 19th Century Customs
Oak cask for making vinegar. Image @Taste of Croatia Vinegar has had a long and noble history of uses for mankind. Since ancient times it has been used as a preservative. Delicate fruits and berries w… more →
Jane Austen's World
Of Ether Day
wrote 7 months ago: It’s almost that day of the year again when I kindly wish people a happy Ether Day, and all I … more →
The Old New York Cancer Hospital: A Resonating Landmark
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wrote 10 months ago: As of this writing, some 28,500 buildings within the 108 historic districts and the 18 historic dist … more →
Work: Staring madness in the face
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wrote 10 months ago: The Yellow Wallpaper by Kaitaro A ticking time bomb lay inside of Louisa May Alcott and she knew it. … more →
New medical report on Lincoln assassination found
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wrote 11 months ago: A researcher for the Papers of Lincoln project has found a medical report from 1865 written by the f … more →
The Connection Between Vinegar and the Fainting Couch: 19th Century Customs
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wrote 1 year ago: Oak cask for making vinegar. Image @Taste of Croatia Vinegar has had a long and noble history of use … more →
Eight Cousins: What would you do if you couldn't read?
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wrote 1 year ago: illustration by Robert Doremus “Now, Mac, listen to me,” Rose said very earnestly, thoug … more →
Blood Letting and Collecting Leeches in the Regency Era
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wrote 1 year ago: One can imagine that during her final illness, Jane Austen was no stranger to leeches. This method o … more →
Victorian Remedies : Of Course It's Safe!
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wrote 1 year ago: During the inventive 19th century, the world saw a boom of sorts in medical breakthroughs. Anything … more →
To conceive or not to conceive: that is the Regency question
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wrote 1 year ago: It’s a truth universally acknowledged that after a bride and groom consummate the marriage the … more →
WF, Civil War Surgeon & My Greatgrandfather
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wrote 2 years ago: What’s in Mrs. Hale’s Receipts for the Million1857? 378. To prevent Wounds from mortifyi … more →
Civil War medicine
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wrote 2 years ago: The American Civil War often gets credit for ending slavery and reshaping the federal government in … more →
Victorian Medicine--painkillers part 2, the sort of wierd part
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wrote 2 years ago: I did a post on Victorian painkillers a year ago with every intention of posting this shortly afterw … more →
Giving Birth in 1884.
wrote 2 years ago: A baby carriage, Eaton’s catalogue 1889, archive.org. 6.00. The Spanish Hood was 1.50 extra. 1 … more →
The Comforts of Bath, 1798: Thomas Rowlandson
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wrote 3 years ago: In 1798, the famous caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson drew The Comforts of Bath, a series of satiric dr … more →
On the Death of John
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wrote 4 years ago: Field Hospital after the Battle of June 27 - Savage Station, VA, June 30, 1862 In an earlier post, I … more →
The Physician in the 19th Century
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wrote 5 years ago: As I noted in an earlier review of Cranford, the plot of this Elizabeth Gaskell adaptation revolves … more →
