The Quack Doctor

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Christmas in the Victorian hospital

The miseries of human life

Plague in Suffolk, 1910

Perkins' Tractors: a fashionable remedy put to the test

Thankful Taylor and the serpent within

The anatomist next door

Expelling the enemies of nature: antimonial cups

The wonder-worker Madame Enault

Tales of the medical macabre

Healers' wheels: Victorian doctors and their bicycles

'Greater depths of depravity': Dr S R Chamley (part 2)

'A sinister parasite on the community': Dr S R Chamley (part 1)

Petticoat physic: the opposition to Lady Doctors

The sad tale of the Talking Fish

Scattering diamonds: mercury and the pox

Dame Nature has giv'n her a Doctor's Degree

A distinguished bloodline: the medicinal leech

The evolution of The Quack Doctor

The Quack Doctor - now on Substack

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