July, 2016 - Thomas Morris

Conceived by a bullet

There are many cases of supposed virgin births in the early medical literature, but few are as wonderfully unlikely as […]

In 1852 The Monthly Journal of Medical Science published a report from Burma, where British forces had just begun to

It’s a great headline, but I can’t take any credit for it. When I was at school one of my

Great surgeons are usually remembered for their successes rather than their failures. Sir Astley Cooper, one of the preeminent figures

Those who have first-hand experience of somnambulism will know that sleepwalkers are often capable of surprisingly complex tasks. While most

I’ve documented a few extraordinary injuries in this blog, but perhaps none as remarkable as this one. The New England

Around 7,000 people in the US are bitten by venomous snakes every year. Many of these are rattlesnake bites, but

Some of the best titles in the history of medical literature are to be found in the early volumes of

The great French surgeon Guillaume Dupuytren was known to his unfortunate juniors as ‘the Napoleon of surgery’ and ‘the brigand

In May 1884 The Lancet’s Paris correspondent reported the following: There is to be seen at Landrecies, in the Department