July, 2015 - Thomas Morris

Centipedes in your bacon

Some truly bizarre goings-on were reported at the Exeter meeting of the Provincial Surgical and Medical Association in 1842. A […]

Here’s something to get unnecessarily worried about: apparently it’s possible to catch a disease through an electric wire! As reported

Samuel Auguste André David Tissot was an eminent Swiss physician of the eighteenth century, best known as the author of

News of a strange malady, unique to the inhabitants of a single country, comes from the edition of The Medical

William Harvey is deservedly one of the most famous physicians who ever lived. His demonstration that the heart is a

Spontaneous human combustion became a fashionable topic in the early nineteenth century, when a number of sensational presumed cases were

On the 14th of May, 1867, Dr Jewett of Summit County, Ohio, was called to see Joel Lenn, 27, a

This promising headline appeared in an issue of the Philosophical Transactions published in 1755. ‘Success’ is an interesting choice of

Until the late nineteenth century, many people remained convinced that emotional experiences during pregnancy could have major psychological or even

Here’s a painful tale from The Journal of Foreign Medical Science and Literature, published in 1823: not for children or