West Wycombe Park: The ancestral home of the Dashwood family is open to the public and provides the setting for several period films and television series, including Little Dorrit and The Duchess.
lithotomies: The surgical procedure to remove stones from hollow organs.
mandrake: Pliny the Elder describes how the root was used by ancient surgeons as an anesthetic.
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Bedlam: The full name of the famous hospital for the mentally ill is Bethlehem Royal Hospital, but from the fourteenth century it was often referred to as Bedlam.
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