Medical History Electrifying Medicine Pt. 2 – Italian Frog Legs 16 Dec 20173 Dec 2025 Onxyfeld, Late Winter 1872 Welcome to the Enlightenment! The era in which we learned the mass of the earth, invented the steam engine, really invested ourselves in colonialism, and most…
Pembroke's Remedies Dr. Pembroke’s Remedies – Galvanic Viagra of the 1850’s 11 Dec 20173 Dec 2025 Imagine if you will: you are visiting an old friend for the evening, with the intention of getting wrecked on brandy and discussing Important Matters, such as the price of New Guinea…
Medical History Electrifying Medicine Pt. 1 – Stingrays and Storms 11 Dec 20173 Dec 2025 Onxyfeld, Late Winter 1872 Many of you are familiar with the lamentably popular 1818 piece of pulp named Frankenstein. Unknown to most, what it actually chronicles is how at the turn of…
Medical History… Dr. Pembroke’s Remedies – Blowing Vapours 9 Dec 201716 Oct 2018 Join Dr. J.D. Pembroke as he studies the many curious, ridiculous and sometimes downright confusing medical methods by which mankind has sought to heal itself with over the years. It’s…
Medical History The Resurrection Men, Pt 4 – Execution 1 Dec 20173 Dec 2025 Up the close and doun the stair, But and ben wi' Burke and Hare. Burke's the butcher, Hare's the thief, Knox the boy that buys the beef. —19th-century Edinburgh skipping…
Medical History The Resurrection Men, Pt 3 – Punishment 1 Dec 20173 Dec 2025 ‘These men perform miracles, for they “raise the dead”, they are slave dealers, for they sell men ; they are amusing, for they furnish subjects for conversation; scientific, for they…
Medical History The Resurrection Men, Pt 2 – Protection 29 Nov 20173 Dec 2025 Last week we began a brief study into the trade and industry of the infamous "body-snatchers," those supposedly immoral and low collection of misfits who bravely and nobly provided the…
Medical History The Resurrection Men, Pt 1 – Extraction 27 Nov 201716 Dec 2017 Onyxfeld, Early Winter As I was recently traveling to the city of Onyxfeld, the train passed by a large, snow covered cemetery. The sight of it brought to mind a…
Medical History Trepanning Pt. 2 – Magic, Medicine and Malpractice 27 Nov 20173 Dec 2025 Last week I discussed the history of the medical procedure known as trepanning. This week I will be discussing further the historical elements of the technique as used for both…
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