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Madeleine Sheahan

is a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University in the department for the History of Science and Medicine and combined degree program in Early Modern Studies. Her research focuses on domestic medicine during the long seventeenth century, examining the violent treatment of animals and humans described in English manuscript recipe books.
Animal Magnetism: Absorption and Attraction in Early Modern Recipes
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Animal Magnetism: Absorption and Attraction in Early Modern Recipes

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Madeleine Sheahan

Fellow Madeleine Sheahan looks at early modern medical recipes that use an ingredient that can’t help but seem gruesome to modern readers: puppies.