tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1244044300216345080.post2143316503630552756..comments2024-03-04T10:20:10.154+00:00Comments on Anna Chen: Madam Miaow Says: All's Well That Ends Well at the National Theatre: reviewMadam Miaowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10237951918529887305noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1244044300216345080.post-29556093212172167942009-08-07T09:48:29.297+01:002009-08-07T09:48:29.297+01:00Apologies for the greengrocers' apostrophe in ...Apologies for the greengrocers' apostrophe in my comment above. I'm not bovvered but a Certain Person is being driven mad wiv it.Madam Miaowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10237951918529887305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1244044300216345080.post-19437755693721528552009-08-06T22:28:45.832+01:002009-08-06T22:28:45.832+01:00AAARGH! HOLY CRIPES, Brigada, that's horrible....AAARGH! HOLY CRIPES, Brigada, that's horrible. But strangely fascinating.<br><br>So my initial guess was right? Fisting has an ailment named after it.<br><br>Cardinal Richelieu died of it? Who say's there's no such thing as karma?Madam Miaowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10237951918529887305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1244044300216345080.post-51995101820817507192009-08-06T20:49:36.981+01:002009-08-06T20:49:36.981+01:00Hmmm, leaving aside the lit crit, here's the d...Hmmm, leaving aside the lit crit, here's the dirt (mot juste) on one sort of fistula: Nancy Mitford's life of Louis XIV gives [page 153-155] more detail than anyone seriously needs on the operation the king underwent for his anal (ouch!) fistula. He had already undergone dental surgery that had removed so much of his upper jaw-bone that when he was chewing his food bits of it came down his nose. In November 1686 they operated on his butt; Cardinal de Richelieu had earlier died of the treatment they gave him for it. FĂ©lix, the king's surgeon, got hold of several poor men suffering from the same complaint and had a few trial runs on their bums, 'perfecting an instrument which was supposed to lessen the pain'(we are not told what their reward, if any, was, poor sods.) We are told that Louis was cut eight times with scissors and twice with a lancet on the operating table. His stoicism under the knife restored a margin, it seems, of his popularity. We can all be profoundly grateful for Dr Simpson of Bathgate who gave us the wonderful gift of anaesthesia.Brigada Flores Magonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17832555450198713371noreply@blogger.com