Dr Lindsey Fitzharris
@drlindseyfitz.bsky.social
NYT Bestselling Author. Medical Historian. Breast Cancer Survivor.
Next book: SLEUTH-HOUND, a whirlwind tour of Victorian forensics from the perspective of the man who loaned a voice & razor-sharp logic to Baker St.’s famous resident: Sherlock Holmes.
Next book: SLEUTH-HOUND, a whirlwind tour of Victorian forensics from the perspective of the man who loaned a voice & razor-sharp logic to Baker St.’s famous resident: Sherlock Holmes.
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If you ever wondered what would happen if you needed a leg amputated in 1832, or if you had a toothache in 1765 - look no further.
From the weird to the wonderful, I'm your gal for all things medical history!
If you ever wondered what would happen if you needed a leg amputated in 1832, or if you had a toothache in 1765 - look no further.
From the weird to the wonderful, I'm your gal for all things medical history!
The new criminal empire…
November 11, 2025 at 6:35 AM
The new criminal empire…
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What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
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This interesting-looking iron implement discovered at a Celtic site in Poland may have been a trepanation tool. 🧪🏺
2,300-year-old tool used for skull surgery unearthed at Celtic settlement in Poland
The uniquely shaped iron surgery implement dates to the fourth to third centuries B.C.
www.livescience.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:49 PM
This interesting-looking iron implement discovered at a Celtic site in Poland may have been a trepanation tool. 🧪🏺
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November 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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I've fallen behind in my promotion of authors because I've been up against my own deadlines and dealing with ongoing medical issues. But I wanted to make up for lost time by recommending AMERICA THE ABANDONED by @brysans.bsky.social. Trust me, you're gonna love this one. And give him a follow!
November 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I've fallen behind in my promotion of authors because I've been up against my own deadlines and dealing with ongoing medical issues. But I wanted to make up for lost time by recommending AMERICA THE ABANDONED by @brysans.bsky.social. Trust me, you're gonna love this one. And give him a follow!
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Enjoy an excerpt from Ravenscourt - a gothic romance pick from The Coffee Pot Book Club #HistoricalRomance #GothicRomance #MustRead #CoffeePotBookClub @samwardsmithwriter.bsky.social #GreatHistoricalFiction
www.elizabethjstjohn.com/guest-author...
www.elizabethjstjohn.com/guest-author...
Ravenscourt | A Victorian Gothic Romance with a Hint of Paranormal Mystery by Samantha Ward-Smith - Elizabeth St.John
Ravenscourt by Samantha Ward-Smith He wanted to be gone from the dark enclosing room, with its mocking misery, to be gone from this house of nightmares, of shattered dreams, and discovered secrets whi...
www.elizabethjstjohn.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Enjoy an excerpt from Ravenscourt - a gothic romance pick from The Coffee Pot Book Club #HistoricalRomance #GothicRomance #MustRead #CoffeePotBookClub @samwardsmithwriter.bsky.social #GreatHistoricalFiction
www.elizabethjstjohn.com/guest-author...
www.elizabethjstjohn.com/guest-author...
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Plaques commemorating Black WWII soldiers fighting against Nazi Germany have been removed from a U.S. military cemetery in the Netherlands —Newsweek
November 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Plaques commemorating Black WWII soldiers fighting against Nazi Germany have been removed from a U.S. military cemetery in the Netherlands —Newsweek
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Call that a mass X-Ray campaign? THIS is a mass X-Ray campaign!
Source: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Source: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Call that a mass X-Ray campaign? THIS is a mass X-Ray campaign!
Source: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Source: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Reposted by Dr Lindsey Fitzharris
A busy and chaotic #MementoMoriMonday
Dancing Skeletons, Kawanabe Kyōsai 河鍋暁斎
c. 1871-1889
www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
Dancing Skeletons, Kawanabe Kyōsai 河鍋暁斎
c. 1871-1889
www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
November 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
A busy and chaotic #MementoMoriMonday
Dancing Skeletons, Kawanabe Kyōsai 河鍋暁斎
c. 1871-1889
www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
Dancing Skeletons, Kawanabe Kyōsai 河鍋暁斎
c. 1871-1889
www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
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Have you ever wondered why babies have such incredibly cute huge chubby cheeks?
So yes, the chubby cheeks look super cute, of course they do! But that’s not WHY babies have them. The chubby cheeks of babies are caused by buccal fat pads. And they are there because of suction.
So yes, the chubby cheeks look super cute, of course they do! But that’s not WHY babies have them. The chubby cheeks of babies are caused by buccal fat pads. And they are there because of suction.
November 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Have you ever wondered why babies have such incredibly cute huge chubby cheeks?
So yes, the chubby cheeks look super cute, of course they do! But that’s not WHY babies have them. The chubby cheeks of babies are caused by buccal fat pads. And they are there because of suction.
So yes, the chubby cheeks look super cute, of course they do! But that’s not WHY babies have them. The chubby cheeks of babies are caused by buccal fat pads. And they are there because of suction.
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Glasgow fought tuberculosis long after rates fell elsewhere in Britain. In 1957, the city launched a month-long mass X-ray drive—backed by a full media blitz. This ad appeared on the side of a tram. This image is from the Wellcome Collection, London.
#Glasgow #Scotland #PublicHealth #TB #MedHist
#Glasgow #Scotland #PublicHealth #TB #MedHist
November 10, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Glasgow fought tuberculosis long after rates fell elsewhere in Britain. In 1957, the city launched a month-long mass X-ray drive—backed by a full media blitz. This ad appeared on the side of a tram. This image is from the Wellcome Collection, London.
#Glasgow #Scotland #PublicHealth #TB #MedHist
#Glasgow #Scotland #PublicHealth #TB #MedHist
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Copyediting FAQ
Q. Should the word “too” at the end of a sentence be preceded by a comma, or no?
A. Whichever way you choose to go, the other way will immediately seem better.
Q. Should the word “too” at the end of a sentence be preceded by a comma, or no?
A. Whichever way you choose to go, the other way will immediately seem better.
November 10, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Copyediting FAQ
Q. Should the word “too” at the end of a sentence be preceded by a comma, or no?
A. Whichever way you choose to go, the other way will immediately seem better.
Q. Should the word “too” at the end of a sentence be preceded by a comma, or no?
A. Whichever way you choose to go, the other way will immediately seem better.
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A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
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This week’s astonishing artifact is an ancient Egyptian human-hair wig found in the tomb of a royal architect and his wife. 🏺🧪
Merit's wig: A 3,400-year-old Egyptian headpiece smoothed down with ancient homemade hair gel
Merit's head covering was made from real human hair and was buried with her in its own wooden cabinet.
www.livescience.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
This week’s astonishing artifact is an ancient Egyptian human-hair wig found in the tomb of a royal architect and his wife. 🏺🧪
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“…there is not such freedom and toleration of political opinion and action that the minority party can exercise an effective and wholesome restraint upon the party in power. Without such restraint, party rule becomes tyrannical and corrupt.”
~James A. Garfield, 1880.
Image: Library of Congress.
~James A. Garfield, 1880.
Image: Library of Congress.
November 10, 2025 at 12:14 PM
“…there is not such freedom and toleration of political opinion and action that the minority party can exercise an effective and wholesome restraint upon the party in power. Without such restraint, party rule becomes tyrannical and corrupt.”
~James A. Garfield, 1880.
Image: Library of Congress.
~James A. Garfield, 1880.
Image: Library of Congress.
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If you read this thread (and do) you will want to read @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social's "The Facemaker", about the visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of WWI's injured heroes, and in the process ushered in the modern era of plastic surgery. Buy/order at your local independent bookstore.
November 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
If you read this thread (and do) you will want to read @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social's "The Facemaker", about the visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of WWI's injured heroes, and in the process ushered in the modern era of plastic surgery. Buy/order at your local independent bookstore.
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Archibald Pitcairne died at the age of 60 #OTD in 1713. Pitcairne led the first recorded legal public dissection in Scotland when he dissected the remains of David Myles in 1702. The man leading the dissection in this painting is believed to be Pitcairne.
November 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Archibald Pitcairne died at the age of 60 #OTD in 1713. Pitcairne led the first recorded legal public dissection in Scotland when he dissected the remains of David Myles in 1702. The man leading the dissection in this painting is believed to be Pitcairne.
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Time for this blog’s annual outing - busting some equine myths of the First World War.
Straight from the horse’s mouth
The run up to Armistice Day is truly the season of duff military history, so on that theme, I thought I’d share some of my top equine myths of the First World War… 1. ‘The British…
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November 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Time for this blog’s annual outing - busting some equine myths of the First World War.
Glasgow fought tuberculosis long after rates fell elsewhere in Britain. In 1957, the city launched a month-long mass X-ray drive—backed by a full media blitz. This ad appeared on the side of a tram. This image is from the Wellcome Collection, London.
#Glasgow #Scotland #PublicHealth #TB #MedHist
#Glasgow #Scotland #PublicHealth #TB #MedHist
November 10, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Glasgow fought tuberculosis long after rates fell elsewhere in Britain. In 1957, the city launched a month-long mass X-ray drive—backed by a full media blitz. This ad appeared on the side of a tram. This image is from the Wellcome Collection, London.
#Glasgow #Scotland #PublicHealth #TB #MedHist
#Glasgow #Scotland #PublicHealth #TB #MedHist
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
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Facial prosthesis, c.1917. THREAD for #RemembranceSunday🧵
From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind’s military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. Bodies were battered, gouged, hacked, and gassed. /1
From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind’s military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. Bodies were battered, gouged, hacked, and gassed. /1
November 9, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Facial prosthesis, c.1917. THREAD for #RemembranceSunday🧵
From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind’s military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. Bodies were battered, gouged, hacked, and gassed. /1
From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind’s military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. Bodies were battered, gouged, hacked, and gassed. /1
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Psst... have you or your little ones read my and @tealcartoons.bsky.social's latest kids' book, DEAD ENDS - about how failure is essential to scientific progress? If so, please consider leaving a review on Goodreads, Amazon, B&N, etc - those reviews really help authors like us!
November 9, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Psst... have you or your little ones read my and @tealcartoons.bsky.social's latest kids' book, DEAD ENDS - about how failure is essential to scientific progress? If so, please consider leaving a review on Goodreads, Amazon, B&N, etc - those reviews really help authors like us!