An unfortunate couple
Johann Georg Steigerthal was an eminent German medic of the early seventeenth century. In 1715 he was appointed court physician […]
Unfortunate predicaments
August 2017
Mysterious illnesses, Unfortunate predicaments
An unwelcome visitor
A short news item published in 1843 by the Gazette Médicale de Paris contains the sort of case that would
Going for a dance
In 1871 a coroner from the city of St Louis, Dr G. F. Dudley, sent a short paper entitled ‘Interesting
The boy who choked on his gold
I came across this interesting story in the Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Surgery at Paris, a collection of
Remarkable recoveries
A forgotten thing
This case, published in the Buffalo Medical and Surgical Journal in 1865, is one that makes you marvel at the
Notable deaths
The colonic carpentry kit
The ‘foreign correspondence’ pages of one 1861 issue of the Medical Times contain an eclectic selection of stories. The first
Remarkable recoveries
The healing power of nature
At the annual meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association in August 1844, a doctor from Newport Pagnell in
Notable deaths, Primitive equipment
Death of an earl
On a warm August afternoon a man in his fifties is enjoying a game of bowls in the affluent English
The slugs and the porcupine
According to an old journalistic adage, if a newspaper headline contains a question the correct answer is always ‘no’. For
Prodigies and monsters, Remarkable recoveries
The 43-year pregnancy
In years gone by, it was quite common for a doctor to pass on his practice to one of his