June, 2016 - Thomas Morris

A diplomatic disaster

In 1824 King Kamehameha II and Queen Kamāmalu of Hawaii made a state visit to Britain. The kingdom of Hawaii […]

It’s May 1852, and Dr Sandborn from Lowell in Massachusetts has had a very interesting morning: The patient, Mr. Wm. Mason,

Last night was a dramatic one in London, with electrical storms and flash floods. It’s been a bad year for

Browsing an 1869 edition of The Lancet I stumbled across a short news article with this promising headline: A cutting from an

This case, reported in the Annals of Surgery in 1907, has one of the best patient histories I’ve ever read.

When I first read this case I found myself thinking that it would not be out of place in a

In July 1842 the London Medical Gazette printed one of the most intriguing headlines in the history of the journal:

The phenomenon of conjoined twins was poorly understood until the twentieth century. Though even the earliest medical journals contain reports

In 1852 the editor of the North American Lancet, Dr Horace Nelson, reported an unfortunate turn of events. His prose

At a meeting of the Edinburgh Medico-Chirurgical Society in 1850, a Professor Miller spoke about an unusual case from his