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What the 19th Century Teaches Us About Medicine Right Now with Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris
Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris is back and she brought her best book yet. Sleuth Hound: The Case of the Real Sherlock Holmes, out October 20th, which tells the story of Joseph Bell, the Edinburgh surgeon who was the actual inspiration for Sherlock Holmes.
We cover optography (the Victorian belief that eyeballs record the last thing a person sees before death, which murderers took seriously enough to destroy their victims' eyeballs), Bell's diagnostic party tricks (dipping his middle finger in a flask and tasting his index finger while students drank whatever was in it), how the Chantereau poisoning…
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