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Victorian Life: Health & Safety Concerns

WEBAs the century drew to a close, issues of public sanitation were increasingly coming to the fore as topics of health and safety concerns. In short, living in the Victorian era could be …

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Victorian Health & Beauty: General Tips for a Healthy Life

WEBHome > Victorian Health & Beauty > Healthy Living > General Tips for a Healthy Life. If I pick up a women's magazine today, it's going to offer me a pretty standard selection of …

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Victorian Health & Beauty: Diet & Nutrition

WEBVictorian articles on healthy diet, foods and nutrition range from basic common-sense pieces to complicated discussions of the comparative values of different types of foods. …

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Victorian Health & Beauty: Medicines & Medications

WEBNew Domestic Remedies (Illustrated London Almanack, 1845). Tested Medical Receipts (Peterson's, 1858). Health Recipes (Peterson's Magazine, 1865). Medical Recipes …

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Advances in Health, Medicine & Sanitation

WEBThe Victorian era generates a great deal of amusement for its proliferation of "patent medicines," medical fads and general quackery. However, as these articles …

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The Victorian Child: Children's Health

WEBTreatment of Infants (Peterson's, 1858). Nursing Children (Godey's, 1860). Mother's Department [Children's Health] (Peterson's, 1872) Health for Town Children (Cassell's …

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Victorian Health & Beauty: Baths & Bathing

WEBBaths were considered both a source of hygiene and beauty, and a factor in health care. Certain conditions were thought to be remedied by a cold bath; others might benefit from …

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VictorianVoices.net: Victorian Health & Beauty

WEBVictorian Health & Beauty. A great deal has been written about Victorian medicines, quackery and medical treatments. So the reader may be surprised by some of the …

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Victorian Health & Beauty: The Value of Exercise

WEBOn Healthy Exercise (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1877). Physical Education for Women (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1877). Athletic Pursuits and Health (Peterson's, 1879). …

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The Victorian Home: Home Safety & Sanitation

WEBIn the later Victorian period, issues of safety and sanitation were coming to the forefront of urban planning. New advances were being made in fire-proof construction methods. …

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Victorian Health & Beauty: Beauty Products & Toiletries

WEBA selection of recipes for toiletries, cosmetics and beauty products. Soap (Girl's Own Paper, 1897) Healthy vs. unhealthy types of soap. Useful Recipes [for Cosmetics & Perfumes] …

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The Victorian Home: Household Hints

WEBNearly every Victorian magazine aimed at women included some sort of "household hints" section. In some, like The Girl's Own Paper, this was most often a filler, with a selection …

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Victorian Health & Beauty: Spas, Treatments & Fads

WEBThis section brings you articles on spas and a variety of more unusual Victorian health treatments and fads. The Hydromania, by Mrs. Busk (Court Magazine, 1834) On the …

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Victorian Education: Physical Education

WEBWhile many of these articles are from a volume published in 1913, the information in that volume has its roots in the Victorian era, and most of its authors are experts from the …

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Victorian Health & Beauty: The Victorian Hospital

WEBA Visit to Greenwich Hospital (Illustrated London Almanack, 1855). St. Matthew's Day at Christ's Hospital (Illustrated London Almanack, 1855). Christ's Hospital (Cassell's Family …

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VictorianVoices.net: The Girl's Own Paper

WEBThe Girl's Own Paper [GOP] is the magazine that launched VictorianVoices.net. I stumbled across it in a bookstore in Hastings, East Sussex (Boulevard Books, if anyone …

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Victorian London: Hospitals

WEBA Visit to Greenwich Hospital (Illustrated London Almanack, 1855). St. Matthew's Day at Christ's Hospital (Illustrated London Almanack, 1855). Christ's Hospital (Cassell's Family …

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Century Magazine, Vol. 33

WEBCentury Magazine, Vol. 33. November 1897-April 1898. Home > About Our Magazines > Century Magazine > Century Magazine 1898A. VictorianVoices.net has made this …

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Victorian Recipes: Soups

WEBRecipes for a variety of vegetable soups. Delicious soups for the summer season. Clear Soup, Milk Soup, Ox-Tail Soup, Kidney Soup, and Palestine Soup (made with Jerusalem …

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