By Drop Dead Gorgeous: Pathologising Dead and Deadly Women by Anna Jenkin On the 3rd July 1755 Marie Catherine Taperet was executed in the Place de Grêve in central Paris. Taperet had been found guilty of enlisting her lover to murder her husband. Taperet’s execution had been delayed twice, the first
Pain and Pearl Cordials
In a previous post I wrote about the ways in which early modern medical texts discussed miscarriage and the remedies they suggested in order to prevent this from happening. But as I hinted at, one of the issues with miscarriage was that, potentially, once it had been identified it was
Inappropriate Intimacies
Seduction, Sex and Medical Practice I have recently been considering the relationship between male medical practitioners and female patients in the early modern period. Much work has been carried out by scholars on this very issue. Traditionally it was argued that physicians – those who had studied at university and