Jules Cloquet: the surgeon as artist
The French surgeon Jules Germain Cloquet was a man of many talents. A member of the Paris Academy of Medicine, […]
February 2019
Britain’s first heart surgeon
Earlier today I was interviewed on TalkRadio about a man I believe to have been Britain’s first heart surgeon –
Mysterious illnesses, Notable deaths
A wonderful accumulation
This notable case report was published in the Medico-Chirurgical Transactions in 1852. The author, John Marshall, was a young surgeon
Unfortunate predicaments
The missing member
A strange case of mistaken identity was reported in the Berliner klinische Wochenschrift in 1874, and subsequently translated in the
The electric centipede
In December 1831 The Lancet reported these strange goings-on in France: A farmer’s wife, twenty-eight years of age, residing in
Horrifying operations
The first caesarean in Ireland
Caesarean section is now the most commonly performed major operation in many parts of the world. A study published in