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The Regency Academe
Exceptional classes about the Regency era led by exceptional instructors.
Available Classes:
March: Historical Surgery
When anesthesia was introduced to surgical practice in the 1840s, the techniques and role of surgery in medicine shifted toward the elective and operative practices we are familiar with today. This course will cover what surgery and surgeons were like in a world that could only hope to reduce the suffering, but not the actual pain of surgery without anesthesia. We will cover the training and practice of the surgical trade with a special emphasis on trauma and how to treat injuries from broken bones and crushed skulls to sword slashes and gunshot wounds. This will be an unflinching look at treating wounds inflicted through accident, war, and by the surgeon’s own amputation knife. We will have 3 classes per week on M,W F. Please bring questions early, even if they are very specific to characters or situations. During the Early Modern period, surgical knowledge varied between countries and treatments varied by class and occupation and we won’t be able to cover all the variations in one course.
Scott Moore’s hobby is the research and reconstruction of surgical and medical practices of 16thC Germany, with tangents into ancient and latter practices as long as it is prior to the advent of anesthesia. He limits his surgical skill to cuts of meat and recreating healing salves.
1. Overview
1. Notes about the special problems with medical history: bias, heroes, presentism (short pre reading available)
2. The education of surgeons and surgery as a trade, not profession
3. Mythbusting as a preview to class
4. Timeline of Medicine and Surgery before, during, and after 1790-1820 to set context
2. The education of surgeons and surgery as a trade, not profession
3. Mythbusting as a preview to class
4. Timeline of Medicine and Surgery before, during, and after 1790-1820 to set context
2. Groundwork
1. Views of anatomy in medicine: wound healing and increasing connection to disease, dissection classes, body shortages, grave robbing, and the murders of 1828
2. Wound healing as the major portion of surgical care
2. Wound healing as the major portion of surgical care
3. Trauma I
1. Breaks and dislocations
2. Skull wounds and trepanning/trephining, but not trephination.
3. Hernias, fistulas, and lithotomy (operative removal of bladder stones)
2. Skull wounds and trepanning/trephining, but not trephination.
3. Hernias, fistulas, and lithotomy (operative removal of bladder stones)
4. Trauma II
1. Cuts, slashes, and sutures
2. Puncture wounds
3. Projectiles – arrows and gunshot wounds
2. Puncture wounds
3. Projectiles – arrows and gunshot wounds
5. Amputation
1. Specific techniques
2. Legs, arms, feet, and hands
3. Mastectomy (operative)
2. Legs, arms, feet, and hands
3. Mastectomy (operative)
6. Additional notes
1. Techniques of blood letting: cutting, leeching, cupping
2. Notable characters including women in medicine and surgery
3. Notable discoveries, changes, publications during the period
4. Movie scene reviews: the good, the bad, the ugly.
2. Notable characters including women in medicine and surgery
3. Notable discoveries, changes, publications during the period
4. Movie scene reviews: the good, the bad, the ugly.
Presenter: Scott Moore
Class Dates: March 12 through 25th, 2012
Cost: $20 members, $25 non-members
Upcoming Classes:
April: In the Mind of a Gentleman with William Haggart
May: History of Falconry with Eva Gordon
Alternate Payment Methods
Though PayPal is preferred, a personal check can be mailed. Contact moderator for mailing address. To ensure a timely invite to class all checks must be received no later than the Thursday before class begins.
Would you like to be a Beau Monde Academe instructor?
For information about becoming an instructor or to submit a class proposal, contact academe@thebeaumonde.com. Class proposals should include class description, outline and a small bio about you.
Questions?
In what format are the classes presented?
We use yahoo groups to present our classes. After you sign up an E-vite is sent to you email. You accept the E-vite to join the group and set up your membership (individual email is recommended). After you have set up your membership all classes and class communications are sent to your email.
When will I receive my E-vite?
E-vites are typically issued two days before class begins.
What do I do if I am having a problem with my E-vite?
Contact Kimberly at academe@thebeaumonde.com to request assistance.
What do I do if I do not receive an E-vite?
If you registered prior to the beginning of class and did not receive an E-vite within the above-mentioned time frame, first check your SPAM folder to ensure it was not incorrectly routed there. If there is no E-vite in your SPAM folder, please contact academe@thebeaumonde.com to request another E-vite to be sent.
Will late registration delay joining the class?
Registrations and payment confirmation can take up to 48 hours to process. We try our best to reduce this time frame, but strongly encourage participants to register a minimum of 4 days prior to the class start date.
If I miss a class or a post can I retrieve it?
All classes can be accessed on the Yahoo Group site.
Need Help?
For technical issues, E-vite, or non-class related issues contact Kimberly Burke at academe@thebeaumonde.com. If you are currently attending a class, our fabulous loop moderator can address any concerns or questions you may have. Contact Martha Ferris at academeModerator@thebeaumonde.com.
