Under The Knife, Episode 5 – Human Skin Books
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHKqBaAmzfU?rel=0] In Episode 5 of Under The Knife, I discuss the dark history behind anthropodermic bibliopegy, or binding books with human skin. Why was it
World’s Littlest Giant: The Curious Case of Adam Rainer
I often write about rare medical disorders, but there is one extraordinary case which is so strange, that there is only one documented instance of it
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[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6ZjFL6RePU?rel=0] After failing to turn on the microphone during a daytime shoot, I jump a wall to film a video in Ecton Graveyard in the
Under The Knife, Episode 4 – ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HTne2Kqmt8] In this special, festive episode of Under The Knife, we take on a Christmas classic and give it a morbid twist. Using
Disturbing Disorders: FOP (Stone Man Syndrome)
In a letter dated 14 April 1736, the surgeon John Freke (picture below) wrote to the Royal Society regarding a highly unusual case involving a