DR. PEMBROKE'S CLINIC

One of the most peculiar and fascinating devices of the nineteenth century was to be found at the Great Exhibition…

Hanging day was a riotous affair in the eighteenth century – convicted criminals and notorious ne’er do wells were held…

The year is 1756, it’s a lovely warm autumn day… and it’s almost time for the hanging. In the center…

“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…”

Featured articles

Leeches and Lightning – The Tempest Prognosticator

The Tyburn Tree Gallows, Part 2

The Tyburn Tree Gallows, Part 1

Testimonials

Leeches and Lightning – The Tempest Prognosticator

The Tyburn Tree Gallows, Part 2

The Tyburn Tree Gallows, Part 1

Anatomy Night School

Dr. Pembroke’s Remedies – Cocaine Wine!

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

Dr. Pembroke’s Remedies – Electric Corsets!

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

Dirty Jobs of the Victorian Era – Angora and Anthrax