Keyword search: Save our Skin: A History of Treatments Remedies to improve the complexion and remove warts, spots and boils have been in use since antiquity. Donkey milk, turpentine and crocodile faeces were all applied to the skin.... Read more Breaking Boundaries: Working Class Skin Working-class skin was a source of fear and a source of knowledge. In the 1800s an increased understanding of contagionist theory lead to an increased fear of the proximity... Read more Only Skin Deep: A History of Skin Markings Skin markings can be natural, artificial or cultural. They can be marks of transformation, of illness or of self-expression. Scars in the 1500s and 1600s were seen as external... Read more Under the Skin: A Short History of Dermatology Dermatology has a relatively short history. Although the first medical text specifically written on the skin dates from the 1500s it was only in the late 1700s that it... Read more Skin: A Natural Border The skin held little interest for medical practitioners during antiquity and the Renaissance. When it was cut open during an autopsy, it was quickly laid aside to study the... Read more Plagued with Pox: Cutaneous Disease in Early Modern England Exposed skin was a site of suspicion for any cutaneous change. Alongside other disfiguring maladies, the plague manifested on the skin and was a significant anxiety for many. Therefore,... Read more It is Never Too Cold for Ice Cream: Italian Food in Scotland When groups of people leave their home and move to other countries or even just regions within the same country they take with them their culinary habits. Familiar food... Read more Recipe or Remedy: A Spoonful of Sugar In the Middle Ages intentional food deprivation was associated with religious fasting, in more extreme cases known as holy anorexia or ‘great starvation’. This practice was most commonly adopted... Read more Recipe or Remedy: Getting it Out of Your System The origins of evacuatory medicine lie with the humoural system. When a person’s humours became imbalanced this needed to be corrected by removing the ‘bad humours’ from their body.... Read more Recipe or Remedy: An Apple a Day From Ancient Greece to the 1800s much of medical practice was based around humoural theory. According to this idea, there were four humours, or fluids, in the body which... Read more Recipe or Remedy: Crowd Sourcing Friends, neighbours, church ministers and phil anthropic members of the l anded gentry shared medical recipes and ingredients with people in their communities. Travelling salesmen sold mysterious secret remedies door to... Read more Expanding Your Cooking Horizons: The Allure of Celebrity Chefs Chefs and cookbooks have existed since the dawn of time; just think about the Roman cookbook De Re Coquinaria or On the subject of cooking that with its chapters... Read more Pagination Previous page Page 1 Current page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Next page
