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Laurel Bassett

is a doctoral candidate in the interdisciplinary Language, Literacy and Culture program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She studies forms of and purposes for reading in the eighteenth century. A former teacher, Laurel works with the Sherman Center for Early Learning in Urban Communities at UMBC.
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…