New book announced: Blood on the Thames
I’m very pleased to say that my next book, Blood on the Thames, has now been announced and is available […]
A tale of two inventions
In my last post I wrote about an impressive operation performed in 1888 by the American surgeon George Ryerson Fowler,
Remarkable recoveries
A shot in the dark
At the age of 14, George Ryerson Fowler ran away from his parents’ home in Jamaica and stowed away on
Mysterious illnesses
Metal in her mammaries
Henry Fryer was a surgeon from the market town of Stamford in Lincolnshire. When he died in 1823 he left
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So much chaff called brains
One of the most famous of all medical marvels is the case of Phineas Gage, the American railroad worker who
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Cover story
Things have been quiet here for the last couple of months. I’ve been busy with a few other projects, including
Hidden dangers, Unfortunate predicaments
Painfully obvious
This spectacular case was published in the Medical Press and Circular, a leading Irish journal, in 1866. The author Dr
The cabbage catastrophe
In 1803 a surgeon from Dumbarton in Scotland, Alexander Hunter, wrote to the London Medical and Physical Journal to report
The carrot cataplasm
Pretty much any substance you care to mention has, at one time or another, been touted as a cure for
The perils of a sneeze
A few months ago I wrote about the criminal who was lucky to recover after inhaling a fake gold earring.