May, 2016 - Thomas Morris

The largest tumor on record

In 1851 a physician from Ohio, Dr P.J. Buckner, was at a meeting of the State Medical Society when he got […]

This blog has on several occasions chronicled the unlikely range of foreign objects which patients have managed to get stuck

With debate raging about the virtues (or otherwise) of eating a low-fat diet, it was interesting to come across this

A miraculous recovery today, taken from the pages of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. This report was published

In 1807 the Philadelphia Medical Museum was sent an extraordinary case report by a local doctor who had been ‘sent

This is hay fever season (if you’re reading this in the northern hemisphere, at least) – the time of year

In 1828 The Lancet reported the antics of a person they called ‘the fire-proof man’, a Cuban with extraordinary abilities:

In 1843 a Dr T.O. Ward wrote to the London Medical Gazette on the subject of pain. A previous correspondent

Here’s a cracking ‘news in brief’ item from an 1851 edition of The Lancet: A few days back a curious

In 1781 an eminent Scottish doctor, Thomas Simson, reported this unusual case in the pages of the Medical Museum: A