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Perfect Saturday activity... transcribing VD-cure newspaper ads. This one by my heroine Mrs. Garway. Enjoy! 🤢 The Weekly Journal, Or, British Gazetteer, Feb 2, 1717.

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Phew! Kingdom secured as two new ravens have joined the Tower of London! ianvisits.co.uk/articles/kingd…

A new study reports declining use of semicolons in literature; this constitutes a serious issue in my book... theguardian.com/science/2025/m…

Ahem... my first acedemic article just went live on the BMJ/STI website. What can 'hidden' cures in handwritten family recipe books tell us about how people dealt with STIs in the long 17th century? doi.org/10.1136/sextra…

King Charles II married Catherine of Braganza on 21st May 1662.

I hope Mr Wichely's last 10 days were super-fun! 💋 Flying Post, Jan. 5, 1716

I think Thomas Garway, owner of Gararway's coffee house, was before him. He advertised the health benefits of tea in 1658... Mercurius Politicus, Sep 23-30, 1658

Vivifying Drops ... could do with some of them this morning...🥱 Sold by Mr, then Mrs Osborne, and thereafter many years by a Mr Radford. Post-Man and the Historical Account, Jan 11, 1715.

These are both opium-based medicines. Paregoric was given to young children to relieve teething pain and send them to sleep. Other opium medicines for children included Mother Bailey’s Quieting Syrup and Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup Find out more in our 'Hooked' exhibition

Thought I'd seen everything, but innovative VD-cure advertisers keep on giving😃 Mr Elmy, 'of known integrity' advertised his cures and "Pills for the French Disease" in gallows confessions and a pamphlet promoting William III's campaign in Ireland... Wing F2302B; E3562

'inject[ion] of lime water to be thrown into rectum'. Witness the delicate bedside manner of one 18thc Scottish physician

Well...the The Worshipful Society of Apothecaries were seemingly already into #steampunk #rhinos in 1617....

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Lovely little book to spend a summer afternoon with... vomiting, purgation, cathartics, smallpox and measles... 😁 Samuel Dwight, 1722. ECCO.

Hurry to get your racy Citron Water from Barbadoes before it is all sold! 🍋🥤 Weekly Journal or Saturday Post March 11, 1721