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Author: Dr. J.D.T. Pembroke

Medical History

The Music of Surgery

17 Aug 2020
Who can choose when or where the Muses descend and sow their creative seeds, and significantly, who can decide what form that creativity takes? For example: to some, my work is…
Medical History

Torment and Teeth

17 Aug 20203 Dec 2025
There's no sound you enjoy more, I know, than the resounding crack as a tooth puller, expert or otherwise, yanks free a partially decayed tooth from your sweet mouth. Now consider such a procedure sans those delightful…
Pembroke's Remedies

Dr. Pembroke’s Remedies – Beer Medicine!

17 Aug 20203 Dec 2025
Ladies and Gentlemen! Do you need an excuse to drink? Do you suffer from all manner of ailments, imaginary or otherwise? Do your children complain too much? Of course, all…
Medical History

The Manchester Mummy

17 Aug 20203 Dec 2025
One of my favorite topics to explore is the terrifying phenomenon of being buried alive (also delightfully known as vivisepulture). It remains one of our supreme dreads, and while for some premature…
Medical History

The Utica Crib

17 Aug 2020
“We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It has often been…
Medical History

The Man With A Hole In His Stomach

16 Aug 202017 Aug 2020
Major discoveries in medicine can occur for different reasons. Some, the result of slow, careful work; aggregate studies and experiments done over time with methodical precision. Some advances however are made…
Medical History

Genius & Insanity

13 Aug 2020
Genius can often come at the cost of deep rooted psychological disorders, and one such man, Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), prophet of both theological revelation and neurological study, is such an example.…
Medical History

Empire Of The Dead

13 Aug 202013 Aug 2020
What do you do when you have millions of bodies, some only partially decomposed, overflowing in a space no bigger than a few city blocks? The answer lies beneath the streets…
Medical History

Two Million Corpses

12 Aug 2020
I often hear about young people who enjoy taking romantic sojourns to a nearby cemetery, proving the eternal and inextricable bond between fervent sexual ardor and the grim inevitability of death.…

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