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'An innocent Welshman, and not an American'
A practitioner in 1860s Wales tried to convince patients that their troubles were down to witchcraft.
Feb 28
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Caroline Rance
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A thorn in the flesh
A Victorian doctor's own mysterious symptoms puzzled his eminent friends
Feb 21
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Caroline Rance
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Tin tube trickery: a clairvoyant’s love scam
‘Professor Clyde Dupree’ used a fortune-telling trick to rob people looking for love.
Feb 14
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Caroline Rance
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The tooth, the whole tooth … and the jawbone too
Dec 13, 2024
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Caroline Rance
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The melancholy delusion of the Stewart sisters
Jan 24
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Caroline Rance
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The human x-ray scientists
Jul 12, 2024
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Caroline Rance
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A thorn in the flesh
Feb 21
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'A diabolical concoction': Dr Buckland's Scotch Oats Essence
Jan 10
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Caroline Rance
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Josephine Girardelli, the incombustible lady
Nov 29, 2024
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Caroline Rance
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A matter of knife and death
Between 1799 and 1805, sailor John Cummings swallowed dozens of pocket-knives.
Feb 7
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Caroline Rance
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Becoming like the dainty girl
In Edwardian London, a new weight-loss product used marketing messages that remain familiar today.
Jan 31
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Caroline Rance
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The melancholy delusion of the Stewart sisters
In 1860s Glasgow, Marion and Catherine Stewart withdrew from all contact with the outside world.
Jan 24
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Caroline Rance
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Dr Kane's radium swindle
Harry Hubbell Kane conned $10,000 out of a patient desperate for a radioactive cure.
Jan 17
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Caroline Rance
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'A diabolical concoction': Dr Buckland's Scotch Oats Essence
Dr H H Kane claimed he could cure opium addiction with a humble tincture of oats.
Jan 10
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Caroline Rance
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'Set the spirit alight': Victorian festive science
Scientific experiments of a more or less dangerous character provided Christmas entertainment in the Victorian parlour
Dec 20, 2024
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Caroline Rance
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The tooth, the whole tooth … and the jawbone too
18th-century dentist Thomas Berdmore revealed the agonies his patients endured before, during and after treatment.
Dec 13, 2024
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Caroline Rance
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