Dr. Maddy Pelling

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671 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 5 May

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Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society · The Fake Princess Who Fooled Georgian England · 5 May 2026 podcast

They invite a doctor from Bath to come and spend some time with the young woman to try and understand her language.

And the idea is that he will gather a load of information that he can get from her, publish it to make his own name as well.

And that they will take that to the East India Company with the proposal that they will then take an expedition out to find the island that she's from.

And they're all going to make their names and be incredibly famous because they found this far off country.

Yeah.

So the doctor that they pick is called Dr. Wilkinson and he is, I think he's something of a charlatan.

So he lives and works in Bath and he's there in the cold, miserable, dark year of 1816 into 1817.

Now he is a galvanist.

So he's electrocuting people and animals left, right and centre.

And he is doing that every single day.

Yeah, his particular specialism is the treatment of women.

And he describes, and so much of his writing survives, and he's like, oh, I attended a woman who'd just given birth and she had really bad mastitis in one of her breasts.

So I electrocuted her head, her breasts, and her groin, and then she got really upset with me for some reason.

And it's like, yeah.

Yeah.

Why was she getting upset?

She's so hysterical.

I walked all the way to her house with my equipment on a Sunday and she wasn't grateful.

That's exactly it.

Yeah, yeah.

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