Add to ORKGBy Lisa Smith Innocent Sport? T.L. Busby, 1826. Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Among the papers of the Newdigate family of Arbury Hall (Warwickshire), I found a pile of loose eighteenth-century recipes. The recipes are practical in nature: remedies for minor ailments, plasters and such for home renovation, medicines for animals, and poisons for killing vermin. It was the poisons that captured my imagination, as such recipes have not appeared in the early modern recipe books that I’ve exam..
A manuscript cookery book compiled by the Rothery family around 1780. The majority of the book is wr...
By Hannah Newton Parents today are all too familiar with the problem of worms in children. Tiny, th...
Recipes for medicines to treat ailments in animals: \u27Distemper in Dogs\u27; \u27Colic in Horses\...
By Alisha Rankin To what extent did early modern individuals experiment with their recipes and cures...
Leechdoms is a term given to medieval era Anglo-saxon remedies which the historian ML Cameron believ...
Recently, I came across an eighteenth-century 'cure' for rabies in a Dutch medical handbook, consist...
Poison trials on dogs conducted by Landgrave Wilhelm IV of Hesse-Kassel in 1580. Universitätsbibliot...
By Lisa Smith It’s the tenth anniversary of The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913, a wonderfu...
During the 16th to the 18th centuries, the royal courts were renowned for their dangers, intrigues a...
By Alisha Rankin How did early modern individuals test and try their recipes and cures? This questio...
By Lisa Smith John Glaisyer a Quaker anointing a dog with burning vitriol. By Charles Williams, 180...
It’s Halloween, so it’s fitting that I’m writing about slimes and sticky oozes, though somewhat misl...
Unlike other manuscript books in this collection, this particular item does not contain any food rec...
By Glennda Bayron A rachitic skeleton, measuring two feet two inches in length (1749). Credit: Well...
By Jana Jackson For early modern pious women, the religious obligation to be healers and competent h...
A manuscript cookery book compiled by the Rothery family around 1780. The majority of the book is wr...
By Hannah Newton Parents today are all too familiar with the problem of worms in children. Tiny, th...
Recipes for medicines to treat ailments in animals: \u27Distemper in Dogs\u27; \u27Colic in Horses\...
By Alisha Rankin To what extent did early modern individuals experiment with their recipes and cures...
Leechdoms is a term given to medieval era Anglo-saxon remedies which the historian ML Cameron believ...
Recently, I came across an eighteenth-century 'cure' for rabies in a Dutch medical handbook, consist...
Poison trials on dogs conducted by Landgrave Wilhelm IV of Hesse-Kassel in 1580. Universitätsbibliot...
By Lisa Smith It’s the tenth anniversary of The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913, a wonderfu...
During the 16th to the 18th centuries, the royal courts were renowned for their dangers, intrigues a...
By Alisha Rankin How did early modern individuals test and try their recipes and cures? This questio...
By Lisa Smith John Glaisyer a Quaker anointing a dog with burning vitriol. By Charles Williams, 180...
It’s Halloween, so it’s fitting that I’m writing about slimes and sticky oozes, though somewhat misl...
Unlike other manuscript books in this collection, this particular item does not contain any food rec...
By Glennda Bayron A rachitic skeleton, measuring two feet two inches in length (1749). Credit: Well...
By Jana Jackson For early modern pious women, the religious obligation to be healers and competent h...
A manuscript cookery book compiled by the Rothery family around 1780. The majority of the book is wr...
By Hannah Newton Parents today are all too familiar with the problem of worms in children. Tiny, th...
Recipes for medicines to treat ailments in animals: \u27Distemper in Dogs\u27; \u27Colic in Horses\...