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Featured articles

Scour Dr. Pembroke’s journals and essays for more true tales of the brutal, depraved and twisted examples of medical history…

24Oct 201824 Oct 2018
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Momento Mori Fundraiser at the International Museum of Surgical Science 26th October 2018

On 26th October 2018, Chicago’s most canny – and uncanny – physicians return to the International Museum of Surgical Science for…

16Oct 201816 Oct 2018
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Dr. Pembroke’s Remedies – Electric Corsets!

The most enduring folly of civilization is the persistent focus on personal aesthetics; sleek, flowing hair, accentuated toned muscles, minuscule waists,…

23Apr 2018
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Dirty Jobs of the Victorian Era – Angora and Anthrax

Taken from Pembroke’s Articles of Occupational Concerns, 1881 In the last few entries, we’ve been carving a merry little path…

Testimonials

“Never before have I witnessed a more ghastly aberration of medical science than what I experienced here today… with such flagrant disregard for protocol, safety or even basic standards of cleanliness… it is unknown if upon his slab a single life has been saved within this travesty he calls a practice… This doctor, if he can even be provided this title, is a brutal figure of barbarism and grotesque morbidity, the likes of which I have never seen in all my years of surgical enterprise…. He should be run from the establishment with all haste and prosecuted to the full extent of the law…”

-Sir Astley Cooper, 1832

“Do not book for children’s parties…”

-Anon

“Anyone who wishes to trephine, should they themselves be trephined in turn… why therefore Dr. Pembroke felt it important to drill three times in a row on a perfectly healthy patient is simply beyond me…”

Medical History…

Dr. Pembroke’s Remedies – Cocaine Wine!

28 Oct 201828 Oct 2018
Editorial note: In a warm, mahogany paneled drawing room, adorned with filled bookshelves, gorgeous chandeliers and lofty ceilings, Dr. James D. Pembroke sits in an armchair, leaning slightly to one side. To…
Performances

Momento Mori Fundraiser at the International Museum of Surgical Science 26th October 2018

24 Oct 201824 Oct 2018
On 26th October 2018, Chicago’s most canny – and uncanny – physicians return to the International Museum of Surgical Science for its first ever Halloween Gala! Tickets sell out quickly so…
Medical History…

Dr. Pembroke’s Remedies – Electric Corsets!

16 Oct 201816 Oct 2018
The most enduring folly of civilization is the persistent focus on personal aesthetics; sleek, flowing hair, accentuated toned muscles, minuscule waists, youthful and blemish-free skin. Like the beauty equivalent of a…
Performances

Live Surgical Theater at the International Museum of Surgical Science May 3rd, May 10th 2018

27 Apr 201824 Oct 2018
Medical History

Dirty Jobs of the Victorian Era – Angora and Anthrax

23 Apr 2018
Taken from Pembroke’s Articles of Occupational Concerns, 1881 In the last few entries, we’ve been carving a merry little path through the history of occupational hazards; diseases, ailments, gross misconduct…
Kolzac Speaks

Dr. James Barry – It’s Time to Leave the Gender Enigma Unsolved.

13 Apr 201813 Apr 2018
Dr. James Barry was a surgical pioneer. Born in 1797 in Ireland, he rose from renowned military surgeon to inspector general of hospitals - one of the highest army medical…
Kolzac Speaks

‘The Alienist,’ Sadomasochism, and the Father of Sexology

12 Apr 201812 Apr 2018
TNT’s newly-concluded drama ‘The Alienist’ – based on Caleb Carr’s novel of the same name – is a psychological thriller about the hunt for a gruesome serial murderer of boy…
Medical History

Dirty Jobs of the Victorian Era – Matchmaking

8 Apr 201812 Apr 2018
And will the match trade die? And will the match trade die? Then thirty thousand working girls Will know the reason why. Daily News (25 April 1871) The humble match, a…
Medical History

Dirty Jobs of the Victorian Era – Chimneys and Testicles

25 Mar 201823 Apr 2018
Taken from Pembroke’s Articles of Occupational Concerns, 1881 In the last article we examined the life of the lowly chimney sweep – the ever suffering but integral member of the Victorian…

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