New book announced: Blood on the Thames
A shot in the dark
Metal in her mammaries
So much chaff called brains
Cover story
Painfully obvious
The cabbage catastrophe
The carrot cataplasm
The perils of a sneeze
The miller’s daughter
A late arrival
An uncommon injury
A cautionary tale
Under the skin
Difficult to swallow
Moulded to the lid
Resuscitated by a Romanov
Death by onanism
The surgeon and the smugglers
The woman with two wombs
The galley slave and the barrel hoop
Specific gravity
A gallon a day keeps the doctor away
An unusual route
A mystery diagnosis
The heart surgeon and the Nazis
The boy with two skulls
A real-life murder mystery from old Dublin
Emergency coffee
Revolutions in surgery
Removed without the least difficulty
A pane in the eye
Nobody nose
Do no harm
Pricked it all over with a fine needle
Conversation with a ghost
Hit in the face with a cow’s stomach
The privy spider
Off the scale
The bottom feeder
An English emigrant to Canada
Magnifique! Delicieux!
A near miss
The safety valve
Millipede meningitis
Ulysse Trélat and an implausible discovery
The lemonade enema
The practical joke
Jules Cloquet: the surgeon as artist
A wonderful accumulation
The missing member
The electric centipede
An infinite number of worms
A knotty problem
The child who swallowed a pin
Four lambs and two puppies
Claws for concern
The tin box
The baby who was bathed in a tumbler
He swallowed a serpent
Bedtime stories
Stand well back
The fiery finger
Shafted
A remarkable dislocation
Divine’s intervention
The viper’s kiss
Commercial break
The pork cylinder
Shear bad luck
An immense plug of wood
Scalpel, suture and Swedish turnips
Occupational hazard
Frightened to death
Jumping over a broomstick
Degloved by a donkey
The stomach snail
Fourteen fingers
A likely story
Point-blank range
A disarming experience
The greatest phenomenon that nature has known
Born under a manger
A practical joke
The wandering needle
Thank you for publishing this excellent and fascinating blog.
Many of us, myself included, often long for the “good old days”. Here are many examples of certain unpleasant shortcomings of medical practice in those times.
Thank you! Glad you’re enjoying it.
Thank you so much for the time you have put into making this type of infomation readable and easy to access.
“Back in the day” they sure did not have the luxuries we now have: pain killers, ICU and the knowledge etc.
As a person who has experienced accidents equal to several you have mentioned (horse related, some things do not change), I am especially grateful for our modern advances.
Thank you for all you do. The website was great fun while healing. Keep up the good works.
I am hoping all is going well in your neighborhood. I was wondering if it is possible that you have ever come across some situations in your researches, similar as to what we are dealing with now but smaller, that had been documented and hopefully on a positive note, “contained”?