April 6, 2022

A Tale of Two Henrys

St. George’s Hospital stood stately and regal in a corner of London’s Hyde Park, its raised colonnaded entrance beckoning visitors inside its healing walls. Now a posh hotel called The

March 11, 2022

How a 16th Century King’s Decision Sort of Led to the Doctor’s Riot of 1788

You can kind of — kind of — blame the craft of body snatching on King James IV of Scotland. King James IV James was the son of King James

January 31, 2022

When the Publick Rose Up Against Its Doctors, Part 2

Ah, the contemptible Mr. Hicks. Little is known about John Hicks, the perpetrator of the act that led to the Doctor’s Riot of 1788. Hicks is said to have looked