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By: Katherine Allen November (or ‘Movember’) is men’s health awareness month, and it focuses on prostate cancer and depression, with the added bonus of moustaches. Movember didn’t exist in the eighteenth century, but I’m...
Midwives have been mentioned often on this blog. They were a central feature of many women’s birthing experiences in the early modern period. Their work, character and bodily condition have, at various points, all come under the scrutiny of their...
In numerous medical texts from the early modern period writers described the many different disorders that affected the ability to urinate, including painful urination, dripping urine and a complete inability to urinate. These problems were not just inconvenient...
The anonymously authored Aristotle’s Book of Problems (1710) presented its readers with a series of questions and answers about the body and the natural world.1Some of these questions are very familiar, ’why have some men curled hair,...
Next summer myself and Dr Ciara Meehan will be hosting a conference on the perceptions of pregnancy from the medieval period to the modern at the University of Hertfordshire. Here is the call for papers and a link to the conference website: Perceptions...
Dr Sara Read In the next part of our occasional series on early modern therapeutics, this week’s post looks at phlebotomy or bloodletting. As we’ve discussed before, blood was one of the four main bodily humours and early modern people saw keeping...
It is apparent when you read early modern medical treatises that there was a great concern that men and women could not get pregnant and bear children. In his treatise The diseases of women with child François Mauriceau remarked that I ‘admire...
Fad diets are perhaps a modern concept, but if we look back to the seventeenth century we can find some pretty interesting weight loss remedies. As we have seen previously some medical writers felt that the shape of your belly had a lot to say about...
The Athenian Mercury published in the 1690s was the first ever Agony Column in England. It followed a format that remains today and should be familiar to everyone – people wrote in anonymous letters asking for information and advice on a range...
In this week’s blog post I am returning to the medical treatise of William Drage, the apothecary and physician of Hitchin, Hertfordshire, who we saw last week moaning about medical learning. Male pattern baldness can be rather distressing. It is...
Dr Chris Langley Birth, Infanticide and Midwifery in early modern Scotland. The Church of Scotland was obsessed with sex. More accurately, ecclesiastical leaders in sixteenth and seventeenth century Scotland were alarmed by the loose morality of their...
Dr Sara Read In the second of our occasional series on the kinds of therapeutic treatments that early modern medicine had to offer, we are going to look at the pessary. In 1583 Philip Barrough explained what a pessary was: Pessarie is a medicine which...
In keeping with the news of the birth of the new heir to the throne (or jumping on the bandwagon depending on how you view things) today’s post is just a very brief look at what the midwife Jane Sharp recommended for the post-post-partum care of...
Dr Katherine Harvey ‘Episcopal Emotions: Saint-Bishops and the Unruly Male Body’ In the late eleventh century, the Catholic Church did something which profoundly affected the lives of thousands of clergymen across Western Europe: it banned...
Spanish Fly, or Cantharides, are, as the name suggests, small emerald-green flies (above is a 13th century illustration of one). Crushed or powdered these flies were used throughout the early modern period as a medicinal substance. They were believed...
In his 1615 medical treatise Mikrokosmographia Helkiah Crooke wrote about the alarming possibility that women might be able to conceive without engaging in sexual activity. He explained that some other authors claimed that the ejaculation of the male...
This post is hopefully the first in a series of posts that will look at some of the therapeutic treatments and medical practices used in early modern medicine. Dr Sara Read With the interest in the practice of cupping in the press recently caused by celebrities...
Much of my research is focused on infertility and the problems early modern men and women had trying to have children. But alongside barrenness, impotence, and unfruitfulness, early modern medical literature also expressed concerns that people could be...
This post comes out of one I wrote several months ago on The Hazards of Horse Riding. In that post I considered the tension between the necessity to ride a horse (to travel and for men to develop a manly body) and the health risks that this posed to the...
Last week I looked at the controversy over the effects of coffee - was it an aphrodisiac or did it cause men to become impotent and infertile. This is really a brief follow-up to that post to show that it was not only coffee that men and women worried...
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