The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.
Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?
A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.
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turnofthecentury:
tuesday-johnson:ca. 1870, [Otolaryngologist posing with her instruments]via Respiratory Diseases: a Photographic History 1845-1870, The Pioneer Era, Stanley B. M.D. Burns
this lady needs to meet another victorian eyepatch-wearer i know. maybe she can treat his asthma…](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpf2x284c41qa51rdo1_500.jpg)
tuesday-johnson:ca. 1870, [Otolaryngologist posing with her instruments]via Respiratory Diseases: a Photographic History 1845-1870, The Pioneer Era, Stanley B. M.D. Burns
this lady needs to meet another victorian eyepatch-wearer i know. maybe she can treat his asthma…
(via mshelterskelter)
![cabbagingcove:
[You really shouldn’t attempt to cure your pneumonia with a box-sauna, just sayin]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lry6heA8Gz1qmrpnro1_500.jpg)
![tuesday-johnson:
ca. 1855, [lady using snuff]
via Respiratory Disease: A Photographic History 1845-1870, The Pioneer Era, Stanley B. M.D. Burns](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpf2f7djiv1qa51rdo1_500.jpg)