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 | Jul 21, 2016 | Childbirth, Medicine
My previous blog posts examined the supposed causes of childbed fever as they were understood in late 18th-century England, when Jane Austen was a teenager, and also the treatments prescribed to manage the symptoms of this often fatal disease. In reading various books...
by Diane Morris | Oct 23, 2014 | Childbirth, Jane Austen, Medicine
When Jane Austen lived, midwives and man-midwives were advised to delay tying off or clamping the umbilical cord—what an early 19th-century midwifery practitioner would call the “navel-string” or funis—until a newly birthed child had gained some mastery over its...
