Victorian Body Parts

Here at the Victorian Body Parts blog, as you would imagine, we’re rather keen to have a good old ogle at some of the more curious ‘articulations’ of the Victorian body. So, from time to time, we’ll post an example of a “bit” of the nineteenth-century body to whet your appetite for the conference.

We’re calling it the ‘Parts Party’ – and no, you can’t stop us.

For our first example, we’re delighted to show you a patient of what is euphemistically dubbed ‘heroic treatment’: