Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of I Heart Radio and Grim and Mild from

Aaron Manky, listener discretion advised.

Hey, this is Dana Schwartz, the host of Noble Blood. I have just a few quick bits of

housekeeping. So if you want to support the show, we have episode scripts and

monthly bonus episodes up on our Patreon, which is linked in the bio. You also

get exclusive stickers and cool merch. It's great. Join the Noble family. It's

great. I'm there. Talk to me. We can hang out. We also have amazing merch. I've

seen fake merch around the internet, but the only actual merch that is like

real for the show is on a website called dftba.com and it's linked in the

episode description. And the third piece of housekeeping is, so I wrote a book

called Anatomy, a Love Story, which is about a surgeon in 19th century Scotland.

And it's sequel Immortality, a Love Story, is coming out this February. And

pre-orders are the most important thing that is in the book world right now.

Like, truly, I cannot express how every single book person in my life is like,

please, Dana, get pre-orders. And I'm like, I will try. I promise. So if you

enjoy the storytelling on the show or you think you would enjoy a sort of

macabre story of, you know, mayhem and surgery in 19th century Edinburgh and

London in the sequel, check it out and maybe pre-order. That is also linked in

the bio. As always, just thank you so much for listening.

At 215 p.m. on July 6th 1907, one of the porters in Dublin, Castle, a man named

William Stivey, was simply trying to do his job. On a typical day, his job meant

catering to the requests of various officials whose offices were scattered

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