March, 2017 - Thomas Morris

The stone-swallower

Eighteenth-century authors were fond of giving their books ridiculously long titles – often so lengthy that they weren’t titles at […]

I recently wrote about a case of deafness believed to have been caused by a kiss – but here’s another

One interesting aspect of nineteenth-century medicine is the fact that many clinicians were convinced that every ailment could be traced

Here’s an alarming pair of cases reported in the first volume of the Medical Essays and Observations, published in 1764:

Some injuries recorded in the medical literature were not the result of some ghastly accident, but had an apparently innocuous

Bloodletting is an inescapable theme of a medical blog set largely in the nineteenth century. Although venesection (opening a vein)

In 1873 The Medical Times and Register published an unusual case report from one Joseph G. Richardson, a doctor from

One of the overwhelming priorities of medicine in the eighteenth century was the improvement of resuscitation methods. Drowning was a

In September 1856 a physician called J. Gotham wrote to an American journal, the Medical and Surgical Reporter, with news

Samuel Gross was a giant of nineteenth-century American surgery, the author of numerous influential textbooks, including the first manual of