April 2018

An extraordinary quantity of worms

In 1801 a contingent of 20,000 soldiers commanded by General Charles Leclerc, the brother-in-law of Napoleon Bonaparte, set sail for […]

A striking report* was published in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal in 1845 by Dr George Dexter, a physician

Sir Astley Cooper was the best known, and best paid, surgeon in early nineteenth-century London. He was a great innovator

In is not unheard of for a soldier to be killed as the result of a swordfight. But it is

This remarkable story was told in a French publication, the Journal Complémentaire du Dictionnaire des Sciences Médicales, in 1830. The

This unexpected discovery was reported in a French journal, the Répertoire Generale d’Anatomie, in 1827. The patient was treated by

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