July, 2017 - Thomas Morris

The cheese knife lobotomy

This alarming headline was attached to a letter sent to The Lancet in 1838 by Dr Congreve Selwyn, a family […]

Here’s a truly strange case that was reported in the Journal de Médécine de Paris in 1881. It concerns an

In the 1820s the British physician John Cheyne made a special study of the numerous ways in which soldiers tried

Every so often I read an old medical case that makes me wince and ask myself, “However did they recover

On August 28th 1641 the 21-year-old English diarist John Evelyn visited the great university of Leiden in the Netherlands. He

…employ a butcher. That, at least, is the advice implied by this unusual eighteenth-century case:The hamlet of Clogher in Co

It has been a bad week for injuries at Wimbledon, with two of the favourites for the men’s title exiting

In 1886 a physician from Glasgow, Dr George Beatson, wrote to the British Medical Journal with a rather unusual tale.

In 1813 the editor of The Medical and Physical Journal, Samuel Fothergill, accepted for publication a paper by John Spence,

In 1844 the great surgeon Robert Liston gave an influential series of lectures at University College London on the technique