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Month: November 2016

An unexpected discovery

a foreign body in the tongue

Today’s news is culled from an edition of The Northern Journal of Medicine published in 1845. It brings a new meaning to the phrase ‘biting your tongue’:

A German soldier was wounded in the battle of Gross-Gorschen (2nd May 1813) by a musket ball, which penetrated the left cheek, carrying away the four last molars of the upper jaw, and, … Read more

Posted on 4th November 2016Categories Unfortunate predicaments1 Comment on An unexpected discovery

A most remarkable accident

Remarkable accidentHere’s a case from The Medical Museum published in 1764 – more than seventy years after the patient had been treated and cured. To be fair to the tardy journal editor, it is a pretty unusual story:

A most remarkable accident befell a young man near Hall in Saxony, whose name was Andreas Rudleff, being about twenty-six years of age, … Read more

Posted on 2nd November 2016Categories Remarkable recoveries2 Comments on A most remarkable accident

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