by Diane Morris | Aug 4, 2016 | Childbirth, Medicine
“A deep, dark and continuous stream of mortality.”—William Farr, 18761 Most medical practitioners in England’s Regency era believed that miasma caused puerperal or childbed fever. The miasma was believed to arrive on foul-smelling air, to emanate...
by Diane Morris | Nov 6, 2014 | Childbirth, Medicine
During England’s Regency period, women in childbed were advised to sip a caudle—a warm drink made by mixing a thin gruel of oatmeal with wine or ale, spices, and sugar. Although often given to sick people, caudles were enjoyed by women in labor and during their...
