Mother knows best
Sometimes doctors don’t have all the answers. Here’s a case in which the medics actually gave up on their patient, […]
Attempted suicide by spoon
When Dr Samuel White, a doctor from the town of Hudson in upstate New York, took on this case in
Remarkable recoveries
A most fortunate escape
Here’s a tale of misadventure so stupid that it wouldn’t be out of place in the annual Darwin Awards. This case
The soldier operated on himself
Isidor Glück was a Hungarian surgeon who emigrated to London and then the United States in the early 1850s. As
Remarkable recoveries, Unusual treatments
The spear and the eucalyptus tree
In 1891 The Lancet printed this case report by Andrew Ross, a doctor who some years earlier had been practising
Hidden dangers
Rings on his fingers
In 1855 Dr D. D. Slade of Boston reported the following freak occurrence to The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal:
Unfortunate predicaments
An unexpected discovery
Today’s news is culled from an edition of The Northern Journal of Medicine published in 1845. It brings a new
Remarkable recoveries
A most remarkable accident
Here’s a case from The Medical Museum published in 1764 – more than seventy years after the patient had been
Unfortunate predicaments
A leech in the throat
Ever swallowed a leech by accident? Me neither. Here’s a tale told by Surgeon-Lieutenant T.A. Granger, a surgeon in the
Incorrigible
The Dictionnaire des Sciences Médicales, published in France between 1812 and 1822, was the first encyclopaedic dictionary of medicine. It’s