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 | Sep 17, 2022 | surgeons & surgery, Surgery
Regency-era surgery was awful for patients, but it was also awful for surgeons. Surgeons performed operations to save lives, even while knowing their skill caused extreme pain. Surgery without Anesthesia During the Regency era (which lasted from about 1789 to 1830)...
by Diane Morris | Jun 2, 2022 | Body-snatchers, Life & Times, surgeons & surgery
The business of body-snatching thrived in Jane Austen’s England. It also flourished in Scotland (1), Ireland (2), on the continent (3), and in the United States (US) and Canada. The success of the body-snatcher or Resurrection man (as he was sometimes called)...
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 24, 2022 | Body-snatchers, Life & Times, Resurrection Men
A previous blog described some of the lessons I learned researching and writing about body-snatchers (1). In Jane Austen’s day (particularly the early 1800s), body-snatchers dug up the dead at night and delivered the fresh cadavers to the surgeons at...
