Prepare yourself for a night of gruesome amputations, crazy drug parties, and mental breakdowns. So, sharpen those knives and put on your best blood-soaked apron as we dissect the Victorian Surgical Revolution.

The Victorian Slang word of the day is sure to leave you in knots.

Music by:
David Fesilyan & David Renda
 

Sources:

F. B. Smith, The People’s Health 1830-1910 (London: Croom Helm, 1979), 262

Adrian Teal, The Gin Lane Gazette (London: Unbound, 2014).

John Eric Erichsen, On Hospitalism and the Causes of Death after Operations (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1874), 98.

Lindsey Fitzharris, Houses of Death: Walking the Wards of a Victorian Hospital, 2017 https://www.drlindseyfitzharris.com/2017/03/24/houses-of-death-walking-the-wards-of-a-victorian-hospital/

Karen Rosa Hammerschlag “The Gentleman Artist- Surgeon in Late Victorian Group Portraiture” 2013
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5125553/

Vipin K Gupta, Chhavi Saini, Meher Oberoi, Gagan Kalra, Md Imran Nas. "Semmelweis Reflex: An Age-Old Prejudice "

Hugh Small, “Florence Nightingale and the Germ Theory of Disease” 2018.

H. Laing Gordon. Sir James Young Simpson and Chloroform (1811-1870)