April, 2016 - Thomas Morris

Eye eye

Have you ever woken up after a night on the town, not entirely sure how the evening ended? In 1850 […]

The runaway winner of the prize for Best Book Title of 1833, had such an award existed, would surely have

It must have been a slow news week when The Medical Record decided to print the following story in July

In 1783 the Medical Commentaries received a striking communication on a curious subject: worms in the nose. It came from

On the 19th of May, 1846, a Dr Harris from Harrisville in Virginia was summoned to treat a young man

In 1737 the Philosophical Transactions published a medical case so remarkable that it was still being quoted in journals well

In 1869 Dr Felix Rubio, a physician in Colombia, wrote to the Medical Times and Gazette on the subject of

The invention of the guillotine in 1789 coincided with a dark era in French history. The phase of the revolution

In 1857 the Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery reported this unusual case of childbirth. What is particularly remarkable about

Unlikely tales were often swallowed unquestioningly by the editors of medical journals in the nineteenth century, so it was a