tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665714985599367255.post8987386430824893186..comments2023-10-25T12:04:53.840-04:00Comments on Bluestocking Ball: Medicine ManAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07706661834677466081noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665714985599367255.post-51053035992119652782011-08-26T10:13:19.732-04:002011-08-26T10:13:19.732-04:00I'm also very excited about that film!I'm also very excited about that film!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07706661834677466081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665714985599367255.post-81306752366693269032011-08-25T20:24:26.700-04:002011-08-25T20:24:26.700-04:00Interesting how the classes of medicine still exis...Interesting how the classes of medicine still exist. Or is it just my physicians who think they walk on water? <br /><br />On a separate but related note, have you heard of this movie: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/nov/07/vibrator-victorian-women-film-hysteria<br /><br />It's Victorian England, not Regency, but I cannot wait to see it :DMBGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13220709976203807104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665714985599367255.post-82078070488069064592011-08-23T14:37:37.183-04:002011-08-23T14:37:37.183-04:00Innnteresting.Innnteresting.Amandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10120774715331922926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665714985599367255.post-43142986446408457072011-08-21T15:28:10.822-04:002011-08-21T15:28:10.822-04:00Thanks for the link! Very interesting picture.
Th...Thanks for the link! Very interesting picture.<br /><br />The state of medicine on the Continent was much more liberal than in Britain. I could certainly be wrong, but to my understanding, human dissection was only permitted on the corpses of executed criminals. The practice of stealing fresh corpses from graves led to a whole cottage industry of safeguards to protect the body of a loved one, from hired guards keeping watch at a grave, to fences thrown up around fresh graves, to iron caskets meant to be impenetrable to body snatchers.<br /><br />The Anatomy Act passed in 1832 was the first British legislation that guaranteed a supply of bodies to medical students. Dissection may have been perfectly legal elsewhere, but not in Britain.<br /><br />It's so interesting to read about the varied state of medicine around the globe at that time. Thanks for your interesting comments! :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07706661834677466081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665714985599367255.post-8646077572973366872011-08-21T13:01:51.038-04:002011-08-21T13:01:51.038-04:00Sorry for the medical woes. I believe that many o...Sorry for the medical woes. I believe that many of us would have been dead by now if we had to rely on medicine of olde. <br /><br />I wonder though, about the history here.....You know I deal with two historical periods back from your field of expertise, but the same Country. As the early modern came to a close, late 17th century and thereabouts after the revolution and towards the restoration, medical\science study was really developing quickly. And there was huge interest in the workings of anatomy and the body. In fact, amongst the high society types it was considered quite the thing to attend an Anatomy Theater to watch a human dissection as one would a play. Fine Ladies and Gentlemen would attend and sit in the amphitheater to watch it all go down. <br />Here is a good shot from the Leiden theater:<br />http://www.princeton.edu/~his291/Leiden_Anatomy.html<br /><br />If fine society folk found themselves in Leiden, they would never miss a chance to attend.<br /><br />I wonder if something shifted from that point towards the Regency and eventually culminating in the Victorian prudishness. Curious. Or, if perhaps there was a social difference between the continent and England itself, because the most popular anatomy theaters were in The Netherlands. Cavendish, who I write about, was in exile there during the interregnum and she was almost obsessively focused on her health and the workings of the body and medicines that were prescribed to her and her husband..the most vile purges and concoctions that we know now were actually poison...<br /><br />If you are interested in a great book that stretches across medicine, literature, and social dynamics of medicine and anatomy (I daresay through the Regency as well) with some disturbingly fascinating pictures look up Jonathan Sawday's "The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture" REALLY great resource and superbly researched and written....<br />http://books.google.com/books?id=pKrQxfPfUpgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=jonathan+sawday&ei=SDhRTsP2IIWqyATIm_nnBw&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false<br /><br />I would be fascinated to find out how things changed...why dissection was allowed earlier but somehow illegalized by the Regency. And if I recall, there was a similar problem for Dr. Frankenstein who had to steal body parts to build his monster too....curiouser and curiouser.... <br /><br />Love your Blog by the way <3Delilah Bermudez Brataashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18299429204702584352noreply@blogger.com