Wet Beds & Hedgehogs
Dr Hannah Newton Bedwetting is a normal part of early childhood. Only if it becomes habitual, or occurs in children over the age of six or seven, is it regarded as a problem.1 Even then, health...
View ArticleFakes and Frauds
For those readers living in Britain stories of men and women faking illness or disability in order to receive benefits from the state welfare system will be familiar, recited in the tabloid newspapers...
View ArticleRheumatism, Joint Pain and Lady Bristol’s Swollen Feet
Dr Sara Read Before the seventeenth century, rheumatism tended to refer to a flow of rheum or humours. These were the sorts of humours thought to be emitted from a cold, for example, but also the ones...
View ArticleUrinary Unease
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...
View ArticleReview: Menstruation and the Female Body
In her first book Sara Read explores the understanding of female bleeding in early modern England. Menstruation and the Female Body in Early Modern England brings together discussions of the key...
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