From Gore to Grave Robbing: The History of Medicine as Inspiration
By E.S. Thomson
September 20, 2016When searching for inspiration for Beloved Poison, the dark and extraordinary history of 19th-century medicine offered an evocative, alarming, and exciting world. The setting for my novel was an infirmary. Ramshackle and decaying, I used Old St. Thomas’s Hospital in London as my template. Instead of being places of hope and cure, in the mid-19th century,…