Almost to the ground
An article from an 1831 edition of the London Medical Gazette begins unpromisingly: Enlargement of the testes, scrotal tumors, and hydrocele, […]
Horrifying operations, Unfortunate predicaments
October 2015
Bewildering research, Mysterious illnesses
The case of the luminous patients
In June 1842 the Provincial Medical Journal devoted no less than ten pages to a long essay by the physician
Horrifying operations
Speaking of tongues
The Scottish surgeon James Syme (1799-1870) has been described as the boldest and most original operator of the end of
Bewildering research
Electrical anaesthesia
News of an exciting new anaesthetic reaches the Medical Times and Gazette in 1865: In a short article in the Lombardy Gazetta Medico, March
Unusual treatments
Lively and clean on the palate
In 1865 the Medical Times and Gazette published a series of articles entitled ‘Report on cheap wine’. There was some
Unusual treatments
Medicated chocolate? No thanks
This from the Medical Times and Gazette, published in 1869: From an interesting article on cacao and chocolate, by M. Marchand,