history of medicine Archives - Caroline Warfield

Bleeding, Leeches and Mesmerism

January 16, 2020

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Highlighting Historical Romance with Elaine Bach on Regency medical practice. In The Perfect Partner which takes place in England in 1817, the protagonist, Lady Diana Ashton, is involved in a tragic carriage accident. Her earl brother, Colin, employs a barrage of doctors and nurses to care for her. Medicine at the time included things like “bleeding a […]

Where Research Leads

September 12, 2019

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Highlighting Historical Romance with Carrie Lomax and research into women’s medical history In researching The Lost Lord —as always happens when delving into the past—more interesting facts than I need for the story I’m telling. One of these is the history of Caesarian sections. (Don’t worry – you won’t have to read about the procedure […]