Part of the appeal of studying literature in university is bearing witness to the human experience through the centuries. Victorian gothic literature explores a variety of emerging anxieties, and the emergence of medicine as both a profession and an authority throughout the nineteenth century became intertwined with gothic literature. Laurence Talairach-Vielmas argues that nineteenth-century gothic literature was both a vessel for spreading knowledge about emerging medicine, and a means through which the public could engage with it in “‘I Have Bottled Babes Unborn’: The Gothic, Medical Collections and Victorian Popular Culture.” Talairach-Vielmas explores the propagation of knowledge and documentation of public reactions in gothic literature by way of a wide…