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 Posted by Captain Everett on March 12, 1998 at 22:41:00:


In response to That was wonderful and..., written by P. Bingham on March 11, 1998 at 13:43:13


To L and T index ] Jason:
 ] Thank you very much for that detail.  I'm always fascinated with the history of medicine....I do know, however, that it was a biography on John Keats, who was not only a poet but an almost-doctor as well....Unrelated to medicine, but amusing, I remember noting from this book that, as a child, he played with lead soldiers and also a toy guilotine (smack me for the spelling).  Toy guilotines were very popular children's toys around the time of the French Revolution, for obvious reasons.  
 ] Patricia
 
Thanks for the offer, though medicine's only a minor interest for me. As the commanding officer I'd leave those things up to the Regimental Surgeon, who, as Wm. Dunlop (a surgeon himself) wrote, can kill men in a more scientific way than I can. It's just that I'm quite a period packrat, picking up almost anything dealing with the time.  I feel the more I can learn about the period, the more convinciing of a portrayal I can provide at re-enactments.  On the other hand, I often feel this is almost impossible to truly do, given that one would first have to completely erase any and all late-20C references, which are so completely interwoven into our thoughts and actions.
I doubt the guillotine would pass the politically correct stamp of approval today.  Heaven knows, it might give the little darlings the idea that that is how we resolve our difficulties. ;-) 
I remain, etc.
Jason E.
 





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