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Ether for Every Occasion: Wedding Nights, Frolics, and Flammable Binges
Victorian era ether wasn't only used for surgeries. It was also used recreationally, as well as to address myriad calamities of life in ways that ranged from the mundane to the outright creepy....
Read MoreA Cure for Melancholy: Victorian Medical Advice on Treating Depression
What we recognize today as depression was, in the Victorian era, popularly known as melancholia or melancholy....
Read MoreThe Solitary Vice: Victorian Views on Masturbation
During the Victorian era, masturbation—also known as self-pollution, self-abuse, or onanism—was believed to be both a moral and a physical evil. ...
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