May, 2017 - Thomas Morris

Pins and needles

At a meeting of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society in 1852, London physicians were treated to the following tale, […]

In 1827 The London Medical and Physical Journal published a short report on what it called a case of ‘infibulation’.

At a meeting of the Glasgow Pathological and Clinical Society on November 13th 1877, members had a rare treat. The

Last week I came across an article which took my breath away. It was published in 1858, in an American

In November 1828 several English-language journals picked up a case which had appeared in the Revue Medicale, a French medical

This was the front page story in The Lancet on July 11th 1835. It’s a glorious case, but I think

The year is 1827, and if you wish to apprise yourself of the latest and most important developments in medicine

In March 1827 The London Medical Repository and Review included a short report of an inquest which had been held

Here’s something that will make you wince, and then marvel at the human body’s recuperative abilities. In 1849 Dr Thomas

One night in May 1832 the duty medics at St Thomas’s Hospital in London suddenly had a particularly difficult case