Medical History The Monkey Mutiny of 1890 12 Aug 2020 Dear readers, I hope you'll forgive a lack of medically related anecdotes this week, in exchange for an absolute gem I found whilst perusing the Saturday 29th March, 1890 copy of the…
Medical History Morphine With Friends 12 Aug 20203 Dec 2025 The companionship of humans has always been of great interest to me in my studies, yet I have never really had need of it. That said, there is something to be…
Pembroke's Remedies Dr. Pembroke’s Remedies – Cure Baldness and Colds! 12 Aug 20203 Dec 2025 In all fairness, this installation of Remedies shouldn't be attributed to me at all, but moreso to the great and evangelical John Wesley, whose solutions to everyday maladies of the…
Pembroke's Remedies Dr. Pembroke’s Remedies – Morphine and Babies! 12 Aug 202012 Aug 2020 It’s Halloween, and ’tis the time of year when we celebrate and immerse ourselves in the dark and diabolical, styling ourselves in the fabulous guises of demons and satanic forms,…
Medical History True Love and Cannibalism on the High Seas 20 May 2020 From Dr. Pembroke's Journal - 17th February 1872 Location: Somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean Cannibalism; the eating of your own kind. Known technically as anthropophagy, human history is littered with examples of cannibalistic…
Medical History Buried Alive – Three Times! 3 Mar 2020 Onyxfeld, Early winter - 1878 The cloying dark The choking dirt The air too thin to breathe. When buried deep Below the soil There'll be no swift relief... -Dr Pembroke There…
Medical History Leeches and Lightning – The Tempest Prognosticator 11 Feb 2020 One of the most peculiar and fascinating devices of the nineteenth century was to be found at the Great Exhibition of Nations in Crystal Garden in 1851, a device that…
Medical History The Tyburn Tree Gallows, Part 2 7 Feb 20203 Dec 2025 Hanging day was a riotous affair in the eighteenth century – convicted criminals and notorious ne'er do wells were held accountable for their vicious and heinous crimes (such as stealing…
Medical History The Tyburn Tree Gallows, Part 1 3 Feb 20203 Dec 2025 The year is 1756, it’s a lovely warm autumn day… and it’s almost time for the hanging. In the center of the square, a giant mass of people cluster around…
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