Firearm fires forearm
Today’s medical dispatch comes from St George’s Hospital in London, and was reported to The Lancet in 1850: A wound […]
Unfortunate predicaments
January 2017
Remarkable recoveries
Up the spout
One of the things that strikes me every time I look at a medical journal published between about 1850 and
Mysterious illnesses, Remarkable recoveries, Unfortunate predicaments
Evacuated with a spoon
In 1836 a doctor from rural Ireland, J.L. McCarthy, encountered a highly unusual case which he then reported to The
She cut off her nose with a carving knife
The image above shows the Jardin Royal (Royal Garden) in Paris – misleadingly named, since although it included a botanical
Unfortunate predicaments
The ear maggots
On Saturday, May 19th 1849 the Westminster Medical Society held one of its regular meetings. Here is an extract from
Mysterious illnesses
The girl whose sweat turned black
Here’s a landmark case from the Philosophical Transactions, reported by the Plymouth surgeon James Yonge in 1709: A girl 16
A nineteenth-century hacking scandal
In November 1870 a London surgeon took the unusual step of writing anonymously to The Times to complain about his