
Category: Medical History


Contraception in Cookbooks: Herbal Family Planning in the Early Modern Period and Beyond

A Cure for (Anything) that Ails You: Cocaine in Victorian Medicine

Deadly Euphoria: A Short History of Erotic Asphyxiation in England

Boiling to be Beautiful in 1930s America

“The Most Kissed Face in the World”: The Curious Case of l’Inconnue de la Seine

Nellie Bly Takes the Gold Cure

Sex and the Asylum: Imprisoning Inconvenient Women

Drop Dead Gorgeous: 19th Century Beauty Tips for the Aspiring Consumptive
