THE MESMERIST - A Victorian Doctor & his Freak Show with Wendy Moore
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- Carlyle's House
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Pop-Up, Something A Little Different and Theatre/Arts
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Tickets from £15.00
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Tue, 10th Jul 2018 @ multiple start times (see ticket info)
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Multiple start times (see ticket info)
After Dark with the National Trust
Medicine, in the early 1800s, was a brutal business. Operations were performed without anaesthesia while conventional treatment relied on leeches, cupping and toxic potions. The most surgeons could offer by way of pain relief was a large swig of brandy.
Onto this scene came John Elliotson, a dazzling new hope of the medical world. Charismatic and ambitious, he quickly rose to the top of his profession and became instrumental in founding the North London Hospital (later UCH) for the London poor. He championed a host of medical discoveries such as quinine and the stethoscope but it was his studies into mesmerism as a cure for epilepsy that would lead to an obsession that would take the nation by storm.
In this talk, Wendy Moore relates Elliotson's extraordinary story exploring how his public demonstrations of mesmerism at UCH transmogrified into a Victorian freak show that people flocked to watch. Here Moore discovers fundamental questions about the fine dividing line between medicine and quackery, between science and superstition, in a Victorian society bedazzled by the magic of the music hall
Wendy Moore
Wendy Moore is a freelance journalist and author. Her first book, The Knife Man, won the Medical Journalists' Association Consumer Book Award in 2005 and was shortlisted for both the Saltire and Marsh Biography Awards. Her second book, Wedlock, has been highly acclaimed in reviews and was chosen as one of the 10 titles in the Channel 4 TV Book Club. How To Create The Perfect Wife was published to rapturous reviews on both sides of the Atlantic.
Tickets £15 including a free glass of prosecco
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| Ticket | Event time | Cost |
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| Salon Ticket Includes a glass of prosecco | 19:00 - 20:15 | £15.00 |
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Carlyle's House, 24 Cheyne Row, SW3 5HL
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A Curious Invitation
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2. Tickets are issued subject to the rules and regulations of the venue.
3. Please check your tickets, as mistakes cannot always be rectified.
4. Occasionally, events are cancelled or postponed by the promoter, team, performer or venue for a variety of reasons. If the event is cancelled, please contact us for information on receiving a refund from the responsible party. If the event was moved or rescheduled, the venue or promoter may set refund limitations. It is your responsibility to ascertain the date and time of any rearranged event.
5. The venue reserves the right to refuse admission and may on occasion have to conduct security searches to ensure the safety of the patrons.
6. Every effort to admit latecomers will be made at a suitable break in the event, but admission cannot always be guaranteed.
7. We regret that tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded after purchase.
8. Tickets are sold subject to the venue or promoter's right to alter or vary the programme due to events or circumstances beyond its control without being obliged to refund monies or exchange tickets.
9. If this ticket is re-sold or transferred for profit or commercial gain by anyone other than the promoter, venue management, DesignMyNight or one of their authorised sub-agents, it will become voidable and the holder may be
refused entry to or ejected from the venue.
10. The venue may operate a No Smoking Policy.
11. The promoter, venue management and DesignMyNight accept no responsibility for any personal property.
12. The event listed on the purchased ticket is strictly for ticket holders who are over 18 years of age. Identification may be required.
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