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Ooooh...random digital gem discovered while looking for 'quack' books at Wellcome... Late 13thC copy of Constantinus Africanus (1015-1087) Viaticum. 😍

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#Earlymodern print is never boring... 18th century revenge relationship publication! John Spinke, famous Pox Doctor attacks his wife Elizabeth in a 288 page 'letter' ...ironically complaining about her 'inconstancy'...🤭 ESTC T55007 1711

Aaw...one of Mrs Garway's books in French. 🥰😍😘 'This Book Is Given Gratis in English: French: High German: Low Dutch: Spanish: Italian: Portuguese: Swedish: Danish: And Polish Languages, for the Use of Forreigners.' - and export 😉 ESTC N20686. 1716.

#earlymodern bluesky'ers! Over the past 2 decades or so, quite some interesting work on global commodities & commodity chains (Cotton, Tea, Coral, ...) has been published. Is anyone aware of good recent (review/historiographical meta-) articles that (critically) take stock of this literature?

Mrs Sophia Raw, née Garway & husband Adam opened a competing shop @ North Entrance of the Royal Exchange. Her mother’s will said: no husband to have ANY influence in the daughters' shop - she knew her son-in-law… None of their VD cures succeeded like the Practical Scheme.

Three postdoctoral research positions (35 months each) are available on the project 'Travellers’ interactions in early modern Italy' (TRAVEL), working with @toffolosandra.bsky.social at the Italian-German Historical Institute in Trento. Apply by 8 May 2026 #Skystorians #EarlyModern bit.ly/4djmUPc

Henrietta-Maria Garway, took over her mother's shop (yesterday) at the Royal Exchange in 1718. Under her, the Practical Scheme’s JV with the Anodyne Necklace flourished. There was one more sister... see tomorrow... Orig Week Jour, 6 Jun 1719 #WomensHistoryMonth #earlymodern

Mrs Garway, marketing genius of the highly successful ‘Specifick Remedy’ for VD. She gave away free books for self-cure - full of ‘puff’ for her remedy. 😉 She bequeathed her shop to her two daughters. British Mercury, Mar 11, 1713; #WomensHistoryMonth #earlymodern

Alice Langham, widow of William, surgeon, curing the Secret Disease, according to his recipes. Reflecting gender norms, she significantly toned down her language compared to her husband’s… Applebee’s 26 May 1722; and 16 July 1720. #WomensHistoryMonth #earlymodern

Mrs Wright working alongside husband Dr Wright, curing the 'Secret Disease'. Only the ads in Female Tatler mentioned female assistance. Clearly targeting women clients... Female Tatler [Baldwin] 29 Mar 1710 #WomensHistoryMonth #earlymodern

Early modern literature job in my department! Permanent which is the UK equivalent to tenure track #earlymodern #acjobs www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Susanna Kirleus, daughter of famous Pox-doctor Tho. Kirleus (Mar 24), took over the VD Pill & Drink business. Criticised as immodest for treating men for VD…and ‘She-Quack’ being as ‘astonishing as a Centaur practicing Physick’… Tatler, #226

Mary Kirleus, daughter-in-law to famous Pox-doctor Tho. Kirleus. See yesterday. ... started competing with her mother-in-law after only 6 months marriage to John. The sharp-eyed note she also stole the advertising copy… Observator 2 May 1705 #WomensHistoryMonth #earlymodern

Susanna, relict of Dr Thomas Kirleus, famous VD-doctor late 17C, continued selling his Pill & Drink. On his death, most of the front page of Post Boy April 27, 1699, had humorous poems to him.  London Post, Sep 13, 1704; Post-Boy Apr 27, 1699. #WomensHistoryMonth #earlymodern

Elizabeth Russell, (widow of Dr Jones, continued her husband’s business selling ‘That famous friendly pill' ...and electuary, and balsam of balsams through a 23-strong seller network in 1680. C.112.f.9[8]. #WomensHistoryMonth #earlymodern

Mrs Bagley, East-India Gentlewoman, selling her Italian Charming Noble Cosmetick of the World... ...and the fam’d Lathering Essence for washing hands and shaving…which also removed ink-spots… at the India Queen. Post Man, 7 April 1720. #WomensHistoryMonth #earlymodern

Lady Read continuing couching cataracts with her dead husband's method, free for His Majesty’s Seamen and Soldiers - and selling medicines. Anne knighted Sir William in 1705, and he became George I's oculist. Weekly Jour Brit Gaz, 2 Feb 1717. #WomensHistoryMonth #earlymodern

Widow Susanna Stoughton, taking unrelated Richard Stoughton to court for counterfeiting her patented Elixir Magnum Stomachium. Court-action promised against all who tried and rewards for discovering counterfeiters. London Gazette, April 6, 1717. #WomensHistoryMonth #earlymodern

Katherine Anderson, promoting Anderson’s Scots Pills in 1662. Her father, Physician to Charles I, invented the pills in the 1630s, still available early 20th century. Contained Aloes, Camboge, Colocynth, Myrrh (pic), and Liquorice. EEBO A3097B #WomensHistoryMonth #earlymodern

A Gentlewoman in Three Fox court in Long Lane (W. Smithfield), advertising her famous breast cancer cures. For the benefit of the lame and sick, and not her own gain…😉 Faithful Scout, Jul 13, 1655; Grub Street Project. #WomensHistoryMonth #earlymodern

Elizabeth Fryer advertising rhubarb retail and wholesale in London Gazette! Chinese rhubarb was an important purgative until 20thC. ‘Our’ rhubarb is Russian, and the first rhubarb pie recipe crossed the Atlantic in 1739. Jan 30, 1725. #WomensHistoryMonth #earlymodern

Cater Mrs, curing eye ailments. One of first women to use a branded illustration. Testimonials were a common but contested practice as poor patients were often pressurised into the use of their names for free treatment. #WomensHistoryMonth #earlymodern Mists's, May 8, 1725.

Elizabeth Cluer, widow of John Cluer, printer and medicine seller. Bateman’s drops wholesaler and printing directions for iconic medicines like Daffy’s Elixir. In 1730, her share in the patent went to her new husband. Fog’s, Dec 14, 1728; Wellcome. #WomensHistoryMonth #earlymodern

Mary Bartlett, matriarch of the famous family making and selling of trusses. In her own facilities at a shopping hot-spot she offered trusses for women experiencing ruptures and preserved their modesty. Weekly Journal, Feb 6, 1725. #WomensHistoryMonth #earlymodern

Mrs Holt advertising her FAMOUS DROPS for HYPOCHONDRIACK MELANCHOLY in MEN and the HYSTERICK DISEASE VAPOURS in WOMEN. From stomach problems but with a gendered diagnosis - men could not have 'the Vapours'...🤨 Daily Journal, March 6, 1730 #WomensHistoryMonth #earlymodern

The only woman in the 17th century who received a Bishop’s surgeon’s licence was Mistress Isabel Davies in Gravel Lane, Aldgate. In 1663 she receive a license for ‘curing Sore breasts and other infirmities in women’. Lambeth Palace. #WomensHistoryMonth #earlymodern

Elizabeth Stephens' powder for Greensickness, the ‘disease of virgins’. The accepted cure was to marry and make babies. No money in prescribing marriage so medicines abounded as Graunt noted a tad shameful... Flying Post Mar 5, 1702; Graunt, EEBO G160. #WomensHistoryMonth #earlymodern

Fantastic fully funded PhD opportunity from @camglamresearch.bsky.social on the entomology of East Anglia and the associated archival records. Bugs'n'books. www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...

Mrs Roleau, selling Issue Peas and plaisters in 1702. Issue peas were actually tiny dried citrus fruits placed inside a running sore or ulcer, to promote secretion and discharge of pus. Post-Man, Apr 7, 1702 & Surgeon’s Hall Museum. #WomensHistoryMonth #earlymodern

Mrs Editha Sermon selling Dr Sermon’s Cathartique and Diuretique Pills in 1680 and has a seller. Unlicensed newspapers mushroomed during the Exclusion Crisis, but few women advertised. She even advertised once in London Gazette...👀 Protest (Dom) Int, Jan 27 #WomensHistoryMonth #earlymodern

Alice Culpeper sold Aurum Potabile after Nicholas died to support herself and daughter. Second hubby John Heydon, left her and spitefully published her recipe, the 🐍 Well, Alice got herself a midwifery license in 1665. Go Alice! #WomensHistoryMonth #earlymodern EEBO, H1670; LMA

Elizabeth Maris, surgeon, 1700, in Grays-Inn-Lane treating Suffocation of the Mother, Prolapses & Weakness of the Back (Fluor Albus)... ...and offering her son's Morbus Gallicus services for bashful men. EEBO, 551.a.32[49] #WomensHistoryMonth #earlymodern

Mrs Williamson, in 1655 selling previous mistress Countess of Kent’s Powder. Was she really her servant, or did she simply use the published recipe book? 🧐🤔😉 Mercurius Politicus, May 10, 1655. EEBO K311, 1653. #WomensHistoryMonth #earlymodern medical women

Mary Rooks, widow of influential publisher-bookseller Thomas Rooks, wholesaler and retailer of medicines. Here promoting Sir R. Carew's Warming stone Dom. Intell, Or, News both from City and Country, Dec. 2, 1679 #WomensHistoryMonth #earlymodern

The Gentlewoman at the two Blue Posts in Haydon Yard in the Minories specialised in women's ailments and advertised from around 1725. She also sold books, here the 4th Ed. of 'The Ladies Physcial Directory' Daily Journal, Jan 7, 1730 #WomensHistoryMonth #earlymodern

Although #earlymodern ads are never boring, I must admit I am glad my 1,162 ad transcribing marathon it over! 🤓🍾 💃 The last was this beautifully illustrated Mineral Water ad from Daily Post, June 6, 1730.

Ellen Daffy inherited Daffy’s Elixir recipe & business from husband Anthony. New hubby Ch. Trubshaw took her assets and ejected her and 2 daughters from her home. Ellen competed from next door...! EEBO, D107A, 1700. #WomensHistoryMonth #earlymodern commercial medical women

#earlymodern ads are never boring. First time I see an ad targeting Midwives as large quantity buyers... intersting! 🤓 London Journal, January 3, 1730. #WomensHistoryMonth

This lineup is tough to beat #earlymodern

#WomensHistoryMonth #earlymodern Commercial medical women Mary Clark, Widow of Mr Henry Clark the 'original Operator of the Spirit of Scurvygrass', running a network of 23 sellers accross Britain in 1685. EEBO, C.112.f.9[18]

#WomensHistoryMonth #earlymodern commercial medical women Anne Laverenst, Surgeon, treating women’s ailments and VD in Arundel-street, London in 1700. The Imperial eagle suggests she was of German background. EEBO, C.112.f.9[26]

#earlymodern ads are never boring... The Bagnio market hotting up (sorry 😆). A new fancy facility with a back-door...hmm...👀 Transcribathon countdown: 806 ads done 358 to go. 😜 Daily Post, June 7, 1725.

#earlymodern ads are never boring. Now a trade-war in the bagnio cupping market! 🛀 Go Mrs Welsh! Literally 'rubb(ish)ing' a competitor 🤭 Daily Post, January 5, 1725.

#earlymodern ads are never boring! Trade war in the bug-eradication business! 🐛🕷️🐜🪳Go, Mrs Freeman! Daily Journal, May 5, 1725.

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#earlymodern ads are never boring! So very suggestive...and bagnios were known for 'fast living'... Daily Courant February 3, 1725.

#earlymodern ads are never boring. 🥰 First time I see offers of pre-printed labels and standard Directions for medicines. NB John Cluer also sold medicines and his nephew Cluer Dicey became a top 'patent medicine' wholesellers in 18C London. London Journal, May 1, 1725.