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The London Spy (1703) [ Places ]
… has it) above the rest, Deservedly has gain’d the Name of Best. Good in all cases, curing all Distempers; every Medicine being so Catholick , it pretends to nothing less than Universality: That indeed had not my Friend told me … Hay-stack he had in the Country , and order’d the Ashes to be brought to Town, from whence he propos’d to prepare a Medicine, call’d Sall-Graminis , which should infallibly Cure all Distempers in Horses , and be the rarest Medicine for Cows, Sheep, or Oxen , and all sorts of Creatures that feed upon Grass , that any Graisier or Farrier …
Taverns | Dining
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Rules for Walking the Streets (1737) [ Places / Practices ]
Conduct | Conversation | Public sphere
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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 …
Aristocracy | Catholicism | Court | Elite | Merchants | Patronage | Scotland
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Saint Domingue [ Trade / Politics & Society ]
… and the enslaved on the plantation in matters of religion (he helped proselytize for the Jesuits before 1763), medicine (he was recognised as talented in administering voodoo medicines) and business (he travelled throughout the colony managing the affairs of his superiors) was well-recognised in … the ways that white men and white women dress themselves.’ 12 Free men of colour were restricted from working in law and medicine and could no longer serve as officers in the militias, which they were now obliged to enrol in. Not all of these …
France | Marronage | North America | Slavery | Theatre | Women
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Royal Society [ Institutions / Clubs & Societies ]
… of articles. 5 Showing the mix of subjects the Royal Society were engaged in, there were also numerous articles on medicine, anatomy, experimental philosophy and antiquities. 4 . Thomas Sprat, The History of the Royal Society (London: …
Civility | Cosmopolitanism | Fellowship | France | Gentleman | Science
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Sugar [ Food & Drink ]
Consumption | Domesticity | Femininity | Slave trade | Tea | Tea-table
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Periodicals [ 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 …
Conversation | Correspondence | News | Periodicals | Politics | Women
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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 …
Correspondence | Friendship | Nature | Poetry | Politics | Romanticism
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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 …
Conflict | Conviviality | Gambling | Gentleman
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