Penny Gush No 1

PENNY GUSH is a fanzine that explores the weird and wonderful aspects of 19th-century history. Issue 1 examines the Jeffreys respirator, a medical device invented in 1836 as an aid to those with various respiratory diseases, but also a device that became associated with quackery and hypochondriac spinsters, described by a contemporary periodical looking like a “passport to the realms of suffering and death”. The zine is an experiment in academic publishing, with historian Jennifer Wallis presenting extensive research drawn from archives and primary sources in a format that attests to the ‘messiness’ of both historical research and the stories we tell about medicine and technology.

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