Weekend Compendium: 30 January 2016 including levitating chicken-creature.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
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January 30, 2016
in Crime , Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , medical oddities , News , Social History , Victorian , Weekend Compendium
and tagged barber's ghost , dissection room , DIY surgery , ghost hoax , hospital ghosts , Irish ghost , lady detective , Mrs Daffodil , post-mortem room ghost , scrofula , tattoos , theatrical special effects , Weekend Compendium: 30 January 2016
The Lesser (King’s) Evil: A desperate woman, suffering from scrofula, submits to a gruesome home surgery.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
January 28, 2016
in Ephemera , Grim and Grewsome , Interesting People , medical oddities , News , Victorian
and tagged 19th century medicine , 19th-century surgery , sawing off the skull , scrofula , surgery without anesthetic , The Lesser (King's) Evil
A grim and grewsome look at people who drink blood and plunge their children into entrail baths–all in the name of health. Comes with a doctor’s warning: “the appetite for blood becomes even stronger than that for liquor, and cases have been known where it has produced mania of the most violent type.” You have been warned.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
June 7, 2013
in Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Grim and Grewsome , medical oddities , News , Social History , vampires , Victorian
and tagged abbatoir , alternative medicine , blood drinking , bullock's blood , consumption , entrails , folk-cures , folklore of medicine , scrofula , slaughterhouse , slaughterhouses , tuberculosis , Victorian medicine
