Would that necessarily been seen as a bar to calling yourself “doctor” circa 1780? When did university accreditation become considered necessary for the title?
Let me tell you about the collective works of Chuck Tingle…
When I decorated my vermillion double breasted Victorian laboratory smock, I wanted the phrase “Back off man! I’m a scientist” translated into Latin and written on the back. I was informed by the learned members of the SDMB that there is not really a Latin word for scientist. Latin really stopped being used before the modern idea of science. If Mary Shelley described Victor Frankenstein as a student of ‘natural philosophy’ or something similar, she meant scientist, I haven’t read the original novel in a while, but I remember young Victor reading books by alchemists (I think Albertus Magnus and Felix Agrippa). If he moved on from “exploded systems” to contemporary science at college, it would be an expected and natural transition.
The Victor Frankenstein character was almost certainly inspired by Johann Konrad Dippel, who supposedly conducted experiments in alchemy and anatomy at Castle Frankenstein. A place Mary Shelly had visited before writing her tale.
IIRC, Frankenstein also lists Paracelsus among his inspirations.
That’s a series of clones, not the same body reanimated over and over.
As an afficionado of Rule 34 (I mean, I actively used to seek out the weird and perverse)… I agree. Just like Trump sex tapes, some things are not meant to be seen.
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And set in our era, too.
“ala” means " in the manner of", not “exact in every way”.
Not quite the same: the donor body was a brain-dead woman kept alive on life support until the brain transplant, not a reanimated corpse.
Frankenstein was “Victor” in the original novel. In the 1931 movie, he was “Henry”. In some of the sequels, the inscription on his tomb reads, “Heinrich”.
The game City of Heroes has a villain named Dr. Vahzilov who wears such a flesh exosuit. He also does a lot of the other things described here, including making shambling mindless servants, and making rich people “immortal” for big payment. In his own deluded mind, he’s a hero, trying to conquer Death itself.
Oh, yeah, forgot about him. He does fit the thread.