For film makers and documentary makers - words of warning:
If you want the stereotypical (i.e.
false) Roman/Medieval/Renaissance/English Civil War/Victorian physician or surgeon i.e who runs around just pulling teeth,
chopping off limbs and putting leeches on everything that moves or will put a leech on a presenter:
Go and look elsewhere!
If you want accurate, factual demonstrations and authentic replica instruments, (all
of which are just as gruesome and entertaining) then read on...
I possess one of - if not – the largest collection of replica medieval and renaissance medical and
surgical instruments in the country outside of a museum , and the procedures
I can demonstrate range from arrow and bullet removal to trepanning and many others besides (tooth
pulling and amputation are demonstrated: properly!).
Add
to that I am the world authority on the history of arrow wound treatment:
