by Diane Morris | Feb 23, 2017 | Regency Research, surgeons & surgery
In pursuit of background material on a character in my third Regency novel, which is in production, I recently found myself browsing nearly every page in Johnstone’s London Commercial Guide. The full title of this weighty tome is typical of many Regency-era...
by Diane Morris | Feb 10, 2017 | Medicine
Recently I was browsing online and discovered this highly entertaining blog by Terynn Boulton titled “When Doctors Literally Blew Smoke Up Your Arse.” Blowing tobacco smoke up a patient’s bowel was used in cases of “suspended animation”...
