Tag: johann st. john

• Scratching “The Itch Infalable” at The Recipes Project

  I wrote this blog post for The Recipes Project: Food, Magic, Art, Science, and Medicine about a 17th-century anti-itching recipe: Scratching “The Itch Infalable”: Johanna St. John’s Anti-Itch Cure On the downside, you may get psychosomatic itching after reading it, much like in 5th grade when you watched all those educational movies about lice. On […]

  Out of Time

  March 10, 2015

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  early modern, history of medicine, johann st. john, medical recipes, morgellons disease