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The Healer Born: Folk Magic, Medicine, and the Mystique of the Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

06/01/2025 No Comments

Here they stand, brothers all,All the sons—divided they fall.Here awaits the birth of the son,The seventh, the heavenly, the chosen one.Here, the birth from an

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Come One, Come All: Herbs and Simples in the Historical Marketplace

04/09/2025 No Comments

Historians of medicine often talk about the ‘medical marketplace’ in the 18th and 19th centuries, as we have ourselves many times in our work. Generally,

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Treated Like Animals? The ‘Master Butcher’ and the Sick Poor of Altrincham Workhouse

03/11/2025 No Comments

of Altrincham Workhouse and the Sick Poor English Butcher, ca.1875 On 15 June 1887, James G. Hutchinson, the Coroner for Bradford in West Yorkshire, recorded

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The Strange Case of Mass Contagion Fits in Modern England

01/26/2025 No Comments

Breughel’s depiction of a much earlier ‘Dancing Plague’ in Strasbourg, 1518 William Falconer (1744-1824), physician at Bath General Hospital, recalled seeing what he described as

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Sequah: Quack, Miracle Worker or Entrepreneurial Genius?

12/31/2024 No Comments

On November the 1st, 1888, an intriguing headline on page 11 of The Shrewsbury Chronicle read: LIKE THE VISIT OF A SECOND CHRIST It was

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Abortion in the Nineteenth Century: Dr Moon, Darley the Chemist and the Infamous Madame Frain

11/27/2024 No Comments

CONTENT WARNING: the following contains descriptions of historic abortion that some readers may find upsetting It is now two years since the United States Supreme

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