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April Fuller

is a doctoral candidate of English literature at the University of Maryland, studying food and disgust in the eighteenth century. She currently serves as Chair of ASECS's Graduate Student Caucus and is an editorial assistant for The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation.
Got Gout? Eighteenth-Century Global "Remedies" in Mary Kettilby’s Receipt Book
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Got Gout? Eighteenth-Century Global "Remedies" in Mary Kettilby’s Receipt Book

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A guest post by April Fuller and Laurel Bassett In her early eighteenth-century recipe, “A Drink for the Gout,” Mary Kettilby’s list of ingredients contain both homegrown roots and objects of empire “pressed into service” for the recovery of the…