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Author: Dr. J.D.T. Pembroke

Medical History

Anatomy Night School

3 Feb 20203 Dec 2025
During the intellectually ravenous period of the mid to late 1700's, the study of medicine was flourishing and blooming like some strange, bloody, sticky anatomical flower, as doctors engaged themselves…
Medical History…

Dr. Pembroke’s Remedies – Cocaine Wine!

28 Oct 20183 Dec 2025
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 20183 Dec 2025
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…
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 20183 Dec 2025
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…
Medical History

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

18 Mar 20183 Dec 2025
Taken from Pembroke’s Articles of Occupational Concerns, 1881 The limits of human endurance are never more emphatically tested than during the labor of an honest days work. The industrial revolution…

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