Episode 6 - Health and Hygiene in the Eighteenth Century - a podcast by David Hou

We rag on the general state of health and hygiene as it would have been in the 18th century, and its presentation in texts from the time.

Also contains minor discussion on the movie The Favourite.

 

 

 

Music from Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 45 in F# minor "Farewell" (1772)

Further episodes of A Student's Progress - The Eighteenth-Century Podcast

Further podcasts by David Hou

Website of David Hou