Greeting from the Antipodes

Greg · Post by **Greg** » Fri April 1st, 2011, 3:08 am

Let me introduce myself first with a confession. I have this terrible addiction to to well I must admit it Historical Fiction! I know what they say diversify, try something else and I have really, Mystery, Thrillers, Vampires, Speculative even combinations, but still its no good! Im hooked and no matter what I read all too soon I have reach for that copy of Dorothy Dunnett or Lindsay Davis. So you see Im doomed! I cant get enough!
Thats probably why I started writing my own novels set in that delightful period of treachery and religious confusion so recently portrayed on the TV, The Tudors. The tumultuous reign of Henry VIII in particular. Whats more like my more modern namesake I have a fascination for period medicine. Though rather the dubious world of coldly impersonal mechanics that is contemporary medicine I prefer the richer, diverse earthy world of Tudor medicine! Yee haw bring on the leeches, a bit of bleeding to balance the humours, certainly! Perhaps good sir your melancholy is brought on by an excess of black bile, an emetic may help? Laudable pus in the wound? No problems, its a promising sign, really trust me Im a physician. Hmm, you did say you were a goldsmith didnt you? Well excellent, excellent, this course of purgatives is maybe a trifle expensive with the cinnamon bark, ginger and pepper corns but so worth the results! As for amputation no worries, I made all the tools myself, Ive even cleaned them with aqua fortis since the last operation on that gangrenous leg of Benson the nightsoil carter. What, how it did go? Very successfully, it was such a neat piece of work, hardly needed the surgeons assistants to hold him down at all after the first minute. What he died! Thats a slander good sir, Benson lasted a fortnight before succumbing to a mild fever! As you know good sir the good lord can call us at any time it was so with poor Benson. Now if hed followed my prescription no doubt Death would have been fended offAhh about my fee?
For more Tudor amusement visit me at;
Blogging on the Tudors at http://rednedtudormysteries.blogspot.com/

Blogging on History and contemporary events at http://prognosticationsandpouting.blogspot.com/

Regards Greg

boswellbaxter · Post by **boswellbaxter** » Fri April 1st, 2011, 3:14 am

Welcome, Greg! Glad to have you here.

MLE (Emily Cotton) · Post by **MLE (Emily Cotton)** » Fri April 1st, 2011, 4:40 am

Good sir, have you a physician's flask suspended from your neck? And have you sampled the various bodily products to determine the humorous balance? Be you welcome here, for laughter doeth good like a medicine, and is of a certain less lethal than some of thy practices.

Greg · Post by **Greg** » Fri April 1st, 2011, 4:56 am

I have indeed, and read my Galen and to quote my learned master-
When the ffesicayn commythe, he is full of purpose for to gyfe medycyns the whiche scholde be cawse of his helthe

Regards Greg

parthianbow · Post by **parthianbow** » Fri April 1st, 2011, 5:07 am

Welcome, Greg. HFO is a very cool place to hang out. I'll be sure to check out your blog. Forgive me if I don't let you near me with your instruments, though!

Vanessa · Post by **Vanessa** » Fri April 1st, 2011, 8:45 am

Welcome, Greg! I hope you enjoy it here.

Madeleine · Post by **Madeleine** » Fri April 1st, 2011, 9:26 am

HI Greg and welcome.

EC2 · Post by **EC2** » Fri April 1st, 2011, 10:01 am

Welcome to the forum Greg!

Misfit · Post by **Misfit** » Fri April 1st, 2011, 11:52 am

Hi Greg, welcome aboard.

David Ross Erickson · Post by **David Ross Erickson** » Fri April 1st, 2011, 1:14 pm

Welcome Greg! Look forward to seeing your novels. Just make sure they're available on Kindle please!

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