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Crime Did Pay
vinaigrette Back in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and even nineteenth centuries, wealthy Europeans carried around small silver boxes called “vinaigrettes,” which were used to store sponges soaked in...
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When plague swept through Europe in 1721, the Dutch imposed strict quarantines, burning ships’ cargoes and making sailors swim to shore naked. The post Plagued at the Ports appeared first on Sarah Albee.
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What Ailed Them
I can’t be the only history geek that spends way too much of her time reading Bills of Mortality. When you’re researching a book that involves a lot of different diseases (and I’m on my third book of...
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In 1439, the parliament of King Henry VI proclaimed that kissing was banned in England, out of concern for “helth and welfare” during an epidemic of plague. source: Leprosy in Medieval England by...
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