DR. PEMBROKE'S CLINIC

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

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

TNT’s newly-concluded drama ‘The Alienist’ – based on Caleb Carr’s novel of the same name – is a psychological thriller…

“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…”

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Dr. Pembroke’s Remedies – Electric Corsets!

Dirty Jobs of the Victorian Era – Angora and Anthrax

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

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

Dirty Jobs of the Victorian Era – Matchmaking

Dirty Jobs of the Victorian Era – Chimneys and Testicles

Dirty Jobs of the Victorian Era – Chimney Sweeps Pt. 1

Dirty Jobs of the Victorian Era – Syphilis and Hats

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