Overview of Podcast: 

• The second of this two part podcast series looks in-depth at George Eliot's writing of Tetruis Lydgate as a critique of the Victorian Medical system and a medium for presenting ideas of reform.

Topic #1 

• Lydgate, a young surgeon. Not considered a doctor due to not graduating with a medical degree (Brown 297). Despite this he pushes beyond the expectations of a medical professional (Eliot 84, 137, 139 &149)(Carpenter 10)(Logan 204)(Meegan 54).
• Cholera is a deadly opposition to Lydgate. He comes to Middlemarch to protect the people from the onsetting pandemic (Eliot 154) (Farr 88).

Topic #2

• Limitations of the British healthcare system and the first wave of Public Health(Crook Ch.1)(Savies 1889-1890). 
• George Eliot critiques the public health system and supports the new wave (Carpenter 9)(Hamlin 1). 
• George Eliot uses Lydgate to offer a new form of practicing medicine and challenge the old ways (Bane 155)(Eliot 116, 117 & 162).

Topic #3

• Culmination of Industrial revolution, pandemics, and need for changes within the medical system (Eliot 519). 
• New Poor Law as a catalyst for change (Price 7, 9, 24 & 27). 
• Doctors began to offer more well rounded forms of care as seen in through Lydgate and Mr. Hachbutt (Eliot 420). 

Topic #4

• Stresses of being a doctor in times of change (Eliot 609)(Logan 197). 
• Eliot's ability to write such realistic characters (Logan 197).
• Stress, lack of success as a medical professional, and finical needs resulting in Lydgate's demise (Eliot 669)(Furst 25).
• Link to Voyant graph that shows the collocation between Lydgate and Bulstrode. https://voyant-tools.org/?corpus=98a34c358f64760f5747e35a0ef1c9cd&query=bulstrode&query=lydgate&chartType=bar&labels=true&view=Trends 
• Lydgate shows the rise of the middle-class through becoming well known for his research on Gout (Eliot 781) (Price 25).

Works Cited: 

Brown, P. S. “The Providers of Medical Treatment in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Bristol.” Medical  History, vol. 24, no. 3, Cambridge University Press, 1980, pp. 297–314, doi:10.1017/S0025727300040333.

Eliot, George. Middlemarch. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1996. 

Furst, Lilian R. Medical Progress and Social Reality A Reader in Nineteenth-Century Medicine  and Literature. State University of New York Press, 2000.

Logan, Peter M. “Conceiving the Body: Realism and Medicine in Middlemarch.” History of the  Human Sciences, vol. 4, no. 2, Sage Publications, 1991, pp. 197–222,  doi:10.1177/095269519100400202.

Price, Kim. Medical Negligence in Victorian Britain: The Crisis of Care Under the English  Poor Law, C. 1834-1900. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015.

Voyant. https://voyant-tools.org/?corpus=98a34c358f64760f5747e35a0ef1c9cd&query=bulstrode&query=lydgate&chartType=bar&labels=true&view=Trends