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Leverhulme project Writing Doctors: Representation and Medical Personality 1660-1832 Team @ClarkLawlor1, @helen189, @leighwd40, @historylitmed, @LozzySullivan

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Jessica Dandona's ‘Dissecting Venus: Popular Consumption of Flap Anatomies, 1890–1910’ explores how flap books perpetuated a myth of the ‘anatomical body’ through binary notions of normal v pathological anatomy, subjecting paper to intimate touch and a clinical gaze. 14/16
Detail from Anathomia oder abconterfettung eines Weibs leib, wie er inwendig gestaltet ist, [1544] (Wellcome Collection). The image shows a printed diagram of a woman's body with a paper flap revealing her internal organs.

ALT Detail from Anathomia oder abconterfettung eines Weibs leib, wie er inwendig gestaltet ist, [1544] (Wellcome Collection). The image shows a printed diagram of a woman's body with a paper flap revealing her internal organs.

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In ‘Medical Men Recommend Them: Branded Medicines & the Myth of the Medical Moral Economy c. 1876-1880’, @Laur_Mainwaring reports on the strategies of medical professionals with branded medicines to maintain reputations for objective transparency. 12/16
An advertisement, black on yellow, for 'Dr Hanks's Neuralgia & Nerve Mixture' by royal patent, 'which is no Quack imposture'. Chemist & Druggist, 15 February 1881 (Wellcome Library).

ALT An advertisement, black on yellow, for 'Dr Hanks's Neuralgia & Nerve Mixture' by royal patent, 'which is no Quack imposture'. Chemist & Druggist, 15 February 1881 (Wellcome Library).

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In ‘Mislabelling & the Medical Printer-Publisher: Demystifying the Ephemera of Elizabeth Rane Cox’ @helen189 outlines Cox’s major contributions to medicine and poison prevention through colour labels & a bestselling medicine chest pamphlet. 10/16
A photograph of a nineteenth-century medicine chest, displaying the wooden box open with a series of labelled glass bottles and the accompanying pamphlet, 'Cox's Companion' (Graham Smith Antiques).

ALT A photograph of a nineteenth-century medicine chest, displaying the wooden box open with a series of labelled glass bottles and the accompanying pamphlet, 'Cox's Companion' (Graham Smith Antiques).

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Taking us beyond the human, Stephanie Howard-Smith’s essay, '‘Take physic, Pomp’: Writing Dog Doctors in Eighteenth-Century Britain', demonstrates the importance of veterinary information and (often sexist) mythology about the owners as well as the medics. 8/16
James Bretherton after Henry William Bunbury, The Dog Barber. La Francia (1772), coloured etching (Wellcome Collection). The image shows a pipe-smoking 'dog barber' wielding scissors with a number of dogs around his ankles.

ALT James Bretherton after Henry William Bunbury, The Dog Barber. La Francia (1772), coloured etching (Wellcome Collection). The image shows a pipe-smoking 'dog barber' wielding scissors with a number of dogs around his ankles.

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.@KatieAske's chapter ‘“To level those monstrous Blotches or Pustules”: Skincare in De Morbis Cutaneis (1714)’ argues that the relationship between elite professional medical advice and popular and domestic medical cures for minor skin ailments could be a blurry one. 4/16
Engraved portrait of Daniel Turner 'of the College of Physicians London' (Wellcome Collection).

ALT Engraved portrait of Daniel Turner 'of the College of Physicians London' (Wellcome Collection).

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It explores how a popular understanding of medical work and medical figures was not only informed but also misinformed, whether by dishonesty, false marketing, preconceived prejudice or through being made subordinate to non-medical literary ends. 2/16
Book cover for 'Myth and (Mis)information: Constructing Medical Practice and Practitioners in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century English Literature and Culture', ed. by Allan Ingram, Clark Lawlor, Helen Williams out now with Manchester UP. It's a brick red and features a coloured etching by Thomas Rowlandson: 'Isaac Swainson promoting his Velnos syrup, facing an onslaught of rival practitioners advocating mercury, 1789 (Wellcome Collection).

ALT Book cover for 'Myth and (Mis)information: Constructing Medical Practice and Practitioners in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century English Literature and Culture', ed. by Allan Ingram, Clark Lawlor, Helen Williams out now with Manchester UP. It's a brick red and features a coloured etching by Thomas Rowlandson: 'Isaac Swainson promoting his Velnos syrup, facing an onslaught of rival practitioners advocating mercury, 1789 (Wellcome Collection).

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& we are so pleased that our special issue of @JECSjournal, Writing Doctors and Writing Health in the Long Eighteenth Century, ed. by @historylitmed, Allan Ingram, & @helen189, is hot off the press, and much of it is open access. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/…
A screenshot of the green cover of Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, with an illustration of 'The Village Doctress' (1787), who treats a young woman's hand while her friend looks on.

ALT A screenshot of the green cover of Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, with an illustration of 'The Village Doctress' (1787), who treats a young woman's hand while her friend looks on.

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Enjoying the space of the Dome in Edinburgh tonight reminiscing about our wonderful panel (and meal afterwards) for ISECS 2019 with @ClarkLawlor1 @SophieVasset @historylitmed @LozzySullivan and many others!
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Among the hubbub of #REF2021 today we're focused on the future as our PI @ClarkLawlor1 joins the ANDA International Conference @UniTrento. His keynote tomorrow focuses on 'Connecting Literature and Medicine via Interdisciplinary Projects' 😉We might even get a mention!
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Exploring Wordsworth country as part of our summer thinking space
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