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A Moment of Silence Remembering the Battle of Culloden

A moment of silence for the brave Highlanders and all who perished at the Battle of Culloden on this day, 269 years past.

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The Battle of Culloden (Scottish Gaelic: Blàr Chùil Lodair) was the final confrontation of the 1745 Jacobite Rising. On 16 April 1746, the Jacobite forces of Charles Edward Stuart fought loyalist troops commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. The Hanoverian victory at Culloden decisively halted the Jacobite intent to overthrow the House of Hanover and restore the House of Stuart to the British throne; Charles Stuart never mounted any further attempts to challenge Hanoverian power in Great Britain. The conflict was the last pitched battle fought on British soil. (ref: wikipedia).

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The deeply grateful,

Outlander Anatomist

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The Artist “Strikes” Again!

Let’s revisit a wee observation from Anatomy Lesson #18, “The Wedding – Part Deux,” wherein I note a discrepancy between Jamie’s injuries as revealed in the flogging scene (Starz episode 6, The Garrison Commander) and his healed scars (Starz episode 7, The Wedding).

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Although his flogging injuries stop above the kilt top (~L4-L5 IV disc), the scars descend over most of his sacrum (~S1-S4 levels). Several friends via different arms of social media propose that the first flogging (which we did not see) accounts for the sacral scars. As a scientist, I would be amiss to not consider all possibilities and probabilities. But (not butt), the likelihood of flaying just sacral skin while sparing buttock skin approaches zero even if performed by a gifted wielder of the whip such as our residence sadist, BJR!

So, I stand by my original observation: artistic license accounts for the prosthesis extending below the actual flogging injuries. These special effects are especially stunning because they grip our minds and force us to confront uncomfortable truths. Does anyone care? Well, I do of course! Big grin. Anatomy Lesson #19 coming up next Tuesday. See you then!

The deeply grateful,

Outlander Anatomist