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Irritating the genitals by various means

One of the most popular stories on this blog is that of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who cut his own penis […]

In 1847, at a meeting of the Paris Medical Society, Dr Jean-Baptiste Pigné gave a short talk about cancer. Pigné

This blog has previously included a few cases in which a patient performed surgery on their own body. One of

In 1846 John Kyle, a surgeon from the Ohio village of Cedarville, submitted the following case report to The Western

In 1833 one Dr Heymann, a doctor from the Westphalian town of Oldendorf, submitted a really rather extraordinary case to

In 1801 a contingent of 20,000 soldiers commanded by General Charles Leclerc, the brother-in-law of Napoleon Bonaparte, set sail for

A striking report* was published in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal in 1845 by Dr George Dexter, a physician

Sir Astley Cooper was the best known, and best paid, surgeon in early nineteenth-century London. He was a great innovator

In is not unheard of for a soldier to be killed as the result of a swordfight. But it is

This remarkable story was told in a French publication, the Journal Complémentaire du Dictionnaire des Sciences Médicales, in 1830. The