By Last summer I spent a few days in the Somerset Heritage Centre, Taunton, reading the casenotes of John Westover, a surgeon – or by the looks of his practice, general practitioner operating in and around Wedmore in the late seventeenth century. Having finished going through the casenotes I took the
By Beauty Spots and French Pox
Katie Aske returns this week in her second guest blog post – the first one is here . This week Katie is discussing beauty spots! The beauty spot is the trademark of the eighteenth-century’s powdered beauties, both male and female. To achieve a beauty spot when one