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By Jennifer 13/04/201606/06/2016 Blog posts

Have you got the Pox?

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

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By Sara 04/02/201523/06/2015 Blog posts

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

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