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Dr Suzie Edge explores a selection of history’s most famous body parts \u2013 from Queen Victoria’s armpit to Louis XIV’s rear end <\/p>

By Charlotte Hodgman\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Monday, 11 December 2023 at 07:34 AM<\/p>

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How did a severed ear start a war between Britain and Spain in the 18th century? And what has Queen Victoria\u2019s armpit got to do with the development of antiseptic? Speaking to Charlotte Hodgman, medical doctor and historian Dr Suzie Edge investigates our long-standing fascination with body parts, and explores the incredible stories of the people attached to them \u2013 from Albert Einstein\u2019s brain to the bones of \u2018Irish Giant\u2019 Charles Byrne.<\/p>\n\n

Suzie Edge is a medical doctor, historian and the author of Vital Organs: A History of the World\u2019s Most Famous Body Parts<\/em> (Wildfire, 2023)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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