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 | 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 | Oct 20, 2017 | surgeons & surgery
A previous blog described a case of crim. con. “Crim. con.” is short for criminal conversation or adultery. The accused adulterer or defendant in the case was a member of the clergy, one Rev. Mr. Bate Dudley. I read the case only because Mr. W....
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...
