Saved for posterity
In 1875 the American surgeon Charles Brigham recorded this wince-inducing case from his practice in San Francisco. The details are […]
Horrifying operations, Unfortunate predicaments
June 2016
Remarkable recoveries
Two spoonsful of brain on the pillow
Here’s a story so replete with ghastly details that if it happened today it would immediately be featured in a TV
Mysterious illnesses, Remarkable recoveries
The deserter
Here’s an entertaining snippet from Guy’s Medical Jurisprudence from 1812, concerning a young man who really didn’t want to be in