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Month: March 2019

The lemonade enema

The following remarkable narrative was published in The Medical and Physical Journal in April 1812. The author, Stephen Love Hammick, was in his mid-thirties when he reported this case; he was later made a baronet in acknowledgment for his service as personal physician to the Prince of Wales. He was also one of the original 300 fellows of the Royal … Read more

Posted on 23rd March 201923rd March 2019Categories Remarkable recoveries4 Comments on The lemonade enema

The practical joke

In 1873 a physician from St Louis, Dr Walter Coles, recorded a particularly unusual home visit he had recently been asked to make. His report was published in the St Louis Medical and Surgical Journal:

Effects of a fright

On the evening of the 1st of May, we were summoned in haste to the residence of a gentleman nearby, to see a boy … Read more

Posted on 6th March 20196th March 2019Categories Mysterious illnesses2 Comments on The practical joke
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