Medicine’s Dark Secrets: A Trailer
Ever since starting The Chirurgeon’s Apprentice, my life has gotten strange. I know what you are thinking—how much stranger can it get when you spend
Losing One’s Head: A Frustrating Search for the ‘Truth’ about Decapitation
If you ever find yourself in a pub with me, chances are that at some point, the conversation will turn to death. Not just death,
O, Wandering Womb! Where Art Thou?
Hysteria. The word conjures up an array of images, none of which probably include a nomadic uterus wandering aimlessly around the female body. Yet up
The Hunter Hunted: Searching for the Body of an Anatomist
Standing in the middle of the Crystal Gallery in the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons, my mind begins to wander to the
WARNING: TOXIC! The Deadly Dead
When a person thinks of anatomical specimens from the past, he or she may think of disembodied remains floating in glass jars filled with alcohol.
From the Dissection Room: Smallpox
The lesions from these two specimens are from an early stage of smallpox in 1776. The disease is likely to have been contracted in utero.