A dangerous weapon
The Northern Journal of Medicine was a short-lived periodical which appeared for only two years before being acquired by a […]
Notable deaths
December 2017
The bladder shrimp
On the eve of the Battle of Waterloo the Duke of Wellington was making a final inspection of his troops
Remarkable recoveries, Unusual treatments
The eye magnet
Today’s story first appeared in the Observationes, a collection of case reports by the German surgeon Wilhelm Fabry (1560-1634). Fabry,
Hidden dangers
The pea pod polyp
In December 1761 a leading French journal, the Journal of Medicine, Surgery and Pharmacy, published a splendid little article by
Horrifying operations
The foot-long bladder stone
This short article appeared in a Norfolk local newspaper, the Norwich Gazette, on June 7th 1746: On Sunday last was
The lucky Prussian
Maximilian Joseph von Chelius was a prominent 19th-century German surgeon who had a significant influence on medics right across Europe.