Added on September 5, 2019 Killing Clio The Postmortem Life of Anton Probst: Philadelphia’s First Mass Murderer On the morning of June 7, 1866, Henry Leffmann, a first-year medical student at Jefferson Medical College, arrived at Philadelphia’s […]
Added on February 7, 2017 Historical essay “Buried with Doctor’s Certificate”: Reading the Uses and Abuses of Bodies in a Medical School Thesis [gblockquote source=’Marie K. Formad, “Some Notes on Criminal Abortion,” thesis submitted to Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1886.’]Case I. May […]