O Ferreira do Teatro Anatómico, 1902
Um dia destes, vadiando pelo site do Arquivo Municipal do Porto, tropecei nesta caricatura de um homem que trabalhara na […]
Procura-se: Santa Branca de Agramonte
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Os Doutores Ferraz de Macedo: João & Francisco
Existe no Museu da Saúde, em Lisboa, um retrato de um “Dr. Ferraz de Macedo”. O retratado, que vamos presumir
Fact-Checking: O “Serial Killer” Diogo Alves e a Sua Cabeça
Em 2017, escrevi um artigo viral sobre Diogo Alves, o famoso serial killer cuja cabeça está preservada na Universidade de
To All the Scents I’ve Loved Before
Perfume is the ultimate con. Here’s a bottle of fragrant water, apply to your pulse points and take a sniff
Em busca de santos catacumbais em Portugal
Estamos nos finais do séc. XVIII, algures na década de 1790. O pintor português José Teixeira Barreto, natural do Porto,
What Not To Do In Portugal, 1826 Edition
“The Portuguese are not very delicate in their mode of describing any indisposition with which they may have been troubled,”
Facing disease at the Museum of Portuguese Dermatology
“People have heard of La Specola,” the curator of the Museum of Portuguese Dermatology begins, surveying her kingdom of wax
A trio of London museums & three pieces of Jeremy Bentham
Earlier this year, I got on a plane to London for a quick rendezvous with a philosopher. I was excited,
On the trail of Diogo Alves, the 1800s serial killer whose head is kept in a jar
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a city in possession of a faculty of medicine must be in possession
A Coruña and the aquarium at the end of the world
I think we were at the drugstore when I first told my co-traveler about my plans to include a daytrip
Death and taxonomy in Santiago de Compostela
It’s a moody city, Santiago de Compostela, and I say it with a heart full of love and a pair