Scalpel, suture and Swedish turnips
Here’s an intriguing article from the American Medico-Surgical Bulletin of 1895, summarising a paper published in a German journal: The […]
Bewildering research
August 2018
Unfortunate predicaments
Occupational hazard
Here’s a striking report from The London Medical and Surgical Journal, originally published in March 1837. The headline is straightforward
Notable deaths
Frightened to death
In 1873 Thomas Lauder Brunton was asked to give a lecture to the Abernethian Society of St Bartholomew’s Hospital in
Unfortunate predicaments
Jumping over a broomstick
During a meeting of the New York Pathological Society in 1872, a local physician called Dr Post gave a short
Unfortunate predicaments
Degloved by a donkey
Mercer’s Hospital, founded in 1734, was for many years one of the most important teaching hospitals in Ireland – but
The stomach snail
William Rhind, a Scottish surgeon of the nineteenth century, had impressively broad interests. He was a botanist of some eminence,