By This week’s post discusses the case of 20-year-old Anne Taylor, who worked as a servant to a brewer named Sikes, in Romford, Essex. Anne was treated by chemical physician George Thompson (1619-1676) in February 1655. We last met Thompson in this post. Thompson added an appendix to his 1665 book Galeno-pale:
By Dead Useful II: operating on the dead
Not too long ago I wrote a post about corpse medicine; the use of parts of the dead body in medicines. This could take the form of Stroking lumps and bumps with the hand of a hanged man, or including mummified flesh in a remedy. But dead bodies weren’t only used as
Guest Blog: Capturing the Cut
This week’s blog post takes the form of a video produced by Dr Christelle Rabier and Dr Jon Adams called ‘Capturing the Cut’. In it we return again to the topic of bladder stones and lithotomy. In the eighteenth century, surgeons were rapidly developing new techniques for invasive surgery. But