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Spas [ Health ]

… Abstract Spa towns encompass various sizes and categories in eighteenth-century Britain. The role of health and medicine pervades social interactions in spa towns which abounded in urban spaces dedicated to sociability: the … their specificities as a place for soft politics. Places > Health Keywords Health illness leisure Master of Ceremonies Medicine Mineral waters pump-room Spa Because of their seasonal structure, spa towns are a lens onto the modes of … 301-329. 3 . See the regional maps in the appendix to Sophie Vasset, Murky waters: British Spas in Eighteenth-Century Medicine and Literature (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022). Social spaces for the sick The pump-room, a …

James, Duke of York and Albany (and court culture in Edinburgh) [ Aristocracy / Cities ]

… brother did in London. He hosted intellectual meetings at Holyrood to debate on scientific improvement, especially in medicine, and promoted science by supporting the establishment of the Royal College of Physicians in 1681. He became its … financially. Thus he was a major actor in the emergent reputation and influence of Edinburgh’s academic institutions of medicine and surgery. James also helped in the foundation of the Library of the Faculty of Advocates , established in …

Sugar [ Food & Drink ]

… home, which were related to tea and the tea-table. 4  If, prior to its popularisation, sugar had also been used as medicine, spice, decoration, or to preserve food, in the eighteenth century, sugar's primary use as a sweetener was …

Periodical [ Print culture ]

… of them focused on specific subjects that could partially restrict their audience, especially when they specialized in medicine or were used to defend a political or religious point of view. 2  Others were more open and had a broad cultural …

John Keats [ Art and Literature ]

… as it ‘should be a friend / To sooth the cares, and lift the thoughts of man’. 4  Having abandoned a promising career in medicine for a less certain one in poetry, he redoubled his faith in the latter as a complementary means of alleviating …

Betting book [ Sports & Gaming accessories ]

… as a social satire. The fashionable practice of speculating on demographics coincided with both the progress in medicine and hygiene and with the general increasing craze for life insurance. A significant proportion of the bets made …