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Physicians' Gallery episodes

October 09 Ep.25 - Microscope
This week, we’re exploring early microscopes, 1600s Dutch experimenter Antonie van Leeuwenhoek and red blood cells. Van Leeuwenhoek was an innovator, a microbiologist, and a curious man. Curious enough to make tiny lenses so he could examine leaves, metal and milk, as well as mites, lice and fleas. We uncover his eyeballing of eyeballs as well as his up close examination of exploding gunpowder, faeces and even the crust which developed between his toes after leaving his socks on for 10 days.
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Dr Charlotte Holmes (@_CCHolmes_) - Editor/Producer
Rachel Forrest - Researcher/Presenter
Dr Daisy Cunynghame - Researcher/Presenter
Dr Sarah Hayward - Editor/Producer
Elizabeth Van Trampe - Editor/Producer
16 min
September 25 Ep.24 - Womb
This week, we’re exploring some womb history. We’re starting off with a bit of menopause magic – symptoms to look out for include a loss of feminine grace and bleeding piles. We dig into some homeopathic remedies and what the womb even is anyway – if Ancient Greeks are to be believed, it’s just an inside out scrotum.
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Dr Charlotte Holmes (@_CCHolmes_) - Editor/Producer
Rachel Forrest - Researcher/Presenter
Dr Daisy Cunynghame - Researcher/Presenter
Dr Sarah Hayward - Editor/Producer
Elizabeth Van Trampe - Editor/Producer
16 min
September 11 Ep.23 - James Gillray
This week, we’re exploring the blood-filled art of James Gillray. We uncover the world of excretory medicine – from gentle emetics to breathing a vein. And we dig into the uncouth, evocative and sometimes obscene work of Georgian caricaturists – making a mockery of the strange practices of eighteenth century doctors and their patients.
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Dr Charlotte Holmes (@_CCHolmes_) - Editor/Producer
Rachel Forrest - Researcher/Presenter
Dr Daisy Cunynghame - Researcher/Presenter
Dr Sarah Hayward - Editor/Producer
Elizabeth Van Trampe - Editor/Producer
18 min
August 28 Ep.22 - Bloodletting Ulcer
This week, we’re exploring the oozing story of bloodletting ulcers. Bloodletting is often described as gory, weird or baffling – but the stories of patients who were overbled and scarred in the process are often forgotten. In this episode we explore the experiences of those who got the rough end of the lancet when they were prescribed a dose of bloodletting.
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Dr Charlotte Holmes (@_CCHolmes_) - Editor/Producer
Rachel Forrest - Researcher/Presenter
Dr Daisy Cunynghame - Researcher/Presenter
Dr Sarah Hayward - Editor/Producer
Elizabeth Van Trampe - Editor/Producer
15 min
August 14 Ep.21 - Barber Pole
This week, we’re exploring the history of barber poles. Were these poles once wrapped in real bloody rags? Were there different coloured poles to show the different procedures that barbers carried out? So many myths and stories, but so little evidence to back it up! But one thing we do know, is that barber poles are bloody fascinating objects.
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Rachel Forrest - Researcher/Presenter
Dr Daisy Cunynghame - Researcher/Presenter
Dr Sarah Hayward - Editor/Producer
Elizabeth Van Trampe - Editor/Producer
14 min
July 31 Ep.20 - Midwives Book
This week, we’re examining The Midwives Book and how a female midwife in 1600s England talked, wrote and understood periods, wombs and menopause. Was flatulence a sign of pregnancy? Do periods cause rabies? Can menstruating women kill bees? Find out the answers to these questions and more in this week’s episode.
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Dr Charlotte Holmes (@_CCHolmes_) - Editor/Producer
Rachel Forrest - Researcher/Presenter
Dr Daisy Cunynghame - Researcher/Presenter
Dr Sarah Hayward - Editor/Producer
Elizabeth Van Trampe - Editor/Producer
19 min
July 17 Ep.19 - Leech Jar
In this episode, we’re unearthing the history of medicinal leeches. From rural swamps to 24 hour leech shops, the leech industry grew and grew across Europe. There were many risks to the use of leeches - from them slithering up your behind to giving you syphilis. One top tip was to not use weird smelling leeches, another was to always squeeze them to empty them out before use.
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Dr Charlotte Holmes (@_CCHolmes_) - Editor/Producer
Rachel Forrest - Researcher/Presenter
Dr Daisy Cunynghame - Researcher/Presenter
Dr Sarah Hayward - Editor/Producer
Dr Kate So - Editor/Producer
Elizabeth Van Trampe - Editor/Producer
24 min
July 03 Ep.18 - Blood Transfusion
In this episode, we’re digging into the gnarly history of blood transfusion. From dog blood to black urine, we’re looking at 1600s attempts to carry out the first transfusions. A man is allegedly kidnapped off the streets while French and English scientists vie for primacy in this story of innovation, experimentation and bad ideas.
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Dr Charlotte Holmes (@_CCHolmes_) - Editor/Producer
Rachel Forrest - Researcher/Presenter
Dr Daisy Cunynghame - Researcher/Presenter
Dr Sarah Hayward - Editor/Producer
Dr Kate So - Editor/Producer
Elizabeth Van Trampe - Editor/Producer
15 min
June 19 Ep. 17 - Eating Blood
This week, we’re talking about eating blood. We’re digging into a tiny Scottish chapbook and the slightly gnarly recipe it contains! From the blood of Roman Gladiators to executed prisoners. Eating blood, cooking blood, smearing blood jam on your toast - we’ve got it all!
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Dr Charlotte Holmes (@_CCHolmes_) - Editor/Producer
Rachel Forrest - Researcher/Presenter
Dr Daisy Cunynghame - Researcher/Presenter
Dr Sarah Hayward - Editor/Producer
Elizabeth Van Trampe - Editor/Producer
18 min
June 05 EP.16 - Straitjacket
This week, we’re talking about straitjackets. Despite many seeing the straitjacket as an extreme method of patient restraint, in the 1700s it was introduced as a modern and humane solution.
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Dr Daisy Cunynghame - Researcher/Presenter
Dr Sarah Hayward - Editor/Producer
16 min

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