July 2018

Fourteen fingers

August is sometimes known as the ‘silly season’: a period of the year when little seems to be happening, politics […]

The French surgeon Jean Civiale was one of the most significant figures in the history of urology, the branch of

Being shot in the head with a revolver is not exactly a minor injury. But in 1875 the Medical Record published this

In 1811 the novelist Fanny Burney underwent a mastectomy for suspected breast cancer. The operation was a total success: she

The French surgeon Alphonse Guérin is hardly a household name today – but for a brief period in the late

At the 1887 Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association a surgeon from Sunderland, James Murphy, walked on stage brandishing

In 1849 a Spanish journal, La crónica de los hospitales, published a case supposed to have occurred some forty years

In 1863 a surgeon from the small German town of Gräfenhainichen, Herr Geissler, wrote to one of the Berlin journals to