July, 2015 - Thomas Morris

A bracing cure for madness

Dr G.G. Brown of Bath writes to the Annals of Medicine in 1799: If you have a vacant page in […]

Until fairly recently, tonsillectomy was quite a common procedure – and for many children their first experience of surgery. Because

Mercury has a long history as a therapeutic drug. Used by Arab doctors in the Middle Ages to treat skin disorders,

The New-Orleans Medical Journal for 1844 contains this tale of a lucky escape, an ingenious doctor and a very naughty

Leeches were one of the most commonly prescribed medical treatments until the late nineteenth century. They were a convenient way of

On the first day of the Ashes Test at Lord’s, here is a cricketing curiosity – a Romantic poet picking up

John Harrison Curtis was a prominent nineteenth-century specialist in diseases of the eyes and ears who became an intimate of

There’s a menace lurking in your kitchen. From The Lancet, 1868: When the attention of the Academy of Sciences of

Catalepsy is a strange condition in which the patient keeps a fixed, rigid posture, even one which looks abnormal and

One of the things that all first-aiders should know is that blades or other penetrating objects should never be removed from