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The horrors of nineteenth-century medicine will return to this blog tomorrow, but here’s a brief intermezzo: The Guardian recently printed a […]

On November 9th 1869 a private from the 5th Royal Irish Lancers, ‘Richard F.’, arrived at the Royal Victoria Hospital

Today’s tale is a ‘news in brief’ item published by The Medical Standard in 1895: Drs. Hart and Watts of

Do you know who performed the world’s first heart transplant ? The surgeon usually credited with the feat is the

There are plenty of common myths about Victorian social mores, but anything you have read about their disapproval of onanism

Today’s post is something of a rarity, since it comes from a medical journal which only existed for a year,

A brief diversion from normal service on this blog for a gratuitous advertisement: today is publication day for my book The

At a meeting of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society in 1852, London physicians were treated to the following tale,

In 1827 The London Medical and Physical Journal published a short report on what it called a case of ‘infibulation’.

At a meeting of the Glasgow Pathological and Clinical Society on November 13th 1877, members had a rare treat. The