Comments on: Best Law Review Article Sentence Ever

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:16:59 +0000

I think President James Garfield had a particularly gruesome regimen imposed on him after he was shot.

By: Bruce Boyden

Bruce Boyden — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:53:11 +0000

Nate, are you using Barnett as your textbook? Your posts are reminding me of last year when I taught Contracts.

By: Daniel S. Goldberg

Daniel S. Goldberg — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:40:47 +0000

In one of my history of medicine classes, the idea of “tobacco enemas” prompted much discussion (and screwed up faces of disgust, as well).

But on Simpson’s point, perhaps we should ask contemporary women whether clinical fascination with human orifices peaked in Victorian times . . .

By: Patrick S. O'Donnell

Patrick S. O'Donnell — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:51:47 +0000

That was delightful, even if, as my wife said, “I don’t want to think about it.”

I suspect contemporary biomedicine is far more adept at entering bodily orifices, employing a vast array of instruments far more imaginative than anything ever produced by Victorian science (with a pedigree reaching back to Tomás de Torquemada and the Marquis de Sade!).