by Diane Morris | May 3, 2023 | Body-snatchers, Dissection, Medicine, Publishing, surgeons & surgery, Surgery
Book 2 of my trilogy is available online. It’s titled Naught but Butchers and can be bought on Amazon and Smashwords. Naught but Butchers continues the story of the surgeon James Hammond, who leaves London — the only home he has ever known — for the...
by Diane Morris | Apr 11, 2022 | Body-snatchers, Medicine, Publishing, Resurrection Men, surgeons & surgery
Book 1 of my Surgeon’s Duty trilogy — titled Ravaging the Dead — is live and can be found as both a paperback and a Kindle eBook on Amazon. It can also be found as an eBook on Smashwords. The trilogy tells a tale of body-snatchers and surgeons in...
by Diane Morris | Mar 21, 2018 | Medicine, Regency Research
This year’s flu epidemic has been extremely challenging, with a high number of hospitalizations and flu-related deaths. The influenza or flu is caused by a virus, a teeny, tiny infectious agent smaller than a bacterium, as can be seen in the illustration below....
by Diane Morris | Jul 6, 2017 | Anne de Bourgh, Medicine
My previous blogs about Anne de Bourgh’s health asked these questions: What illness made Anne sickly? and Might Anne have had scarlet fever? You may recall that Anne de Bourgh is the heiress of Rosings Park in Jane Austen’s beloved novel Pride and...
by Diane Morris | Jun 8, 2017 | Disease, Medicine
Regency-era doctors threw all sorts of treatments at their patients with scarlet fever: gargles made with hydrochloric acid; gentle potions made with antimony—a compound used to promote perspiration (today antimony is used mainly in industrial processes); and caustic...
by Diane Morris | May 25, 2017 | Anne de Bourgh, Disease, Medicine
Anne de Bourgh, the heiress of Rosings Park in Jane Austen’s popular novel Pride and Prejudice, might have been suffering from a debilitating disease that made her sickly and cross: acute rheumatism, consumption (tuberculosis), tussis (a persistent cough), or a...
