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‘To level those monstrous Blotches or Pustules’: Skincare in Daniel Turner’s De Morbis Cutaneis (1714). (2024)
Book Chapter
Aske, K. (2024). ‘To level those monstrous Blotches or Pustules’: Skincare in Daniel Turner’s De Morbis Cutaneis (1714). In A. Ingram, H. Williams, & C. Lawlor (Eds.), Myth and (Mis)information: Constructing the Medical Professions in Eighteenth- an

In 1711 Daniel Turner removed himself from the Barber-Surgeons Company and was admitted to licentiate by the Royal College of Physicians. Turner battled with his reputation as a surgeon and his new recognition as a physician, so with his first public... Read More about ‘To level those monstrous Blotches or Pustules’: Skincare in Daniel Turner’s De Morbis Cutaneis (1714)..

Sharing Skincare Secrets in Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture (2023)
Book Chapter
Aske, K. (2023). Sharing Skincare Secrets in Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture. In Participation, Collaboration, Association: Communautés, échanges, politique, et philosophies au XVIIIe siècle. Communities, Exchanges, Politics and Philosophies in the

This chapter examines the way skin treatments were shared within popular culture from the late seventeenth to early eighteenth century. Focusing on dermatological treatments for the most common issues––pimples, freckles, and several other broadly def... Read More about Sharing Skincare Secrets in Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture.