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Category Archives: Medical history

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Chevalier Taylor

Dec 2, 2021Eric CorbettMedical historyRedirect

Redirected to John Taylor (oculist)

John Taylor (oculist)

Dec 2, 2021Eric CorbettMedical historyBetter than Wikipedia

Early 18th-century English eye surgeon and medical charlatan.

Crazy Sally Mapp

Nov 29, 2021Eric CorbettMedical historyRedirect

Redirected to Sarah Mapp.

Sarah Mapp

Nov 29, 2021Eric CorbettMedical historyBetter than Wikipedia

18th-century bone-setter, nicknamed Crazy Sally.

The Sleeping Girl of Turville

Jul 3, 2019Eric CorbettHoaxes & frauds, Medical history

A girl who, her mother claimed, fell into a deep sleep from which she could not be roused for nine years.

Resurrectionists

Jun 24, 2019Eric CorbettMedical history

Those who exhumed the bodies of the recently deceased during the 18th and 19th centuries to provide cadavers to anatomists for their research.

Sooterkin

Jun 23, 2019Eric CorbettMedical history, Mythical & legendary creatures

Imaginary kind of afterbirth in the form of an “evil-looking little animal” especially attributed to Dutch women.

King’s Evil

Apr 16, 2019Eric CorbettFolk medicine, Medical history

Name given in medieval times to scrofula, a swelling of the lymph nodes in the neck caused by tuberculosis.

Tobacco smoke enema

Nov 16, 2018Eric CorbettMedical history

The tobacco smoke enema, an insufflation of tobacco smoke into the rectum by enema, was a medical treatment employed by European physicians for a range of ailments

Doctrine of signatures

Sep 20, 2018Eric CorbettMedical history

Observation that the form of a medicinal plant in some way resembles the organ or disease it can be used to treat.

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