A hopeless case?
In 1868 the Richmond Medical Journal reported an extraordinary accident which had befallen a 9-year-old boy at a cotton press […]
Remarkable recoveries
Hidden dangers
The perils of being a writer
Having spent most of the last year sitting in seclusion writing and editing my first book, I was amused to
Remarkable recoveries
Cured by a nightmare
Here’s a strange little tale which – unusually for this blog – does not involve a single doctor, since the
Unfortunate predicaments
A pin in the ear
In 1859 The Medical Times and Gazette included this report from John Robert Kealy, a surgeon from Gosport. He relates
Medical shenanigans
Sheathed in a pig’s gut
In 1870 a Dr John P. Gray, of Utica, told this strange and rather sad little tale to a meeting
Unfortunate predicaments
The missing pencil
Today’s medical dispatch comes from the Canada Medical Journal, and was submitted to that publication in 1867 by Dr Thomas
Mysterious illnesses, Unfortunate predicaments
The woman who peed through her nose
This is the most extraordinary and perplexing case of all the many I’ve sifted through while finding material for this
Unusual treatments
Toast and herbs
William Salmon was a seventeenth-century physician and a prolific writer, the author of numerous books on surgery and internal medicine.
Remarkable recoveries
In one side and out the other
Volume 6 of the Medical Facts and Observations, published in London in 1795, includes four cases submitted by a Dr
Remarkable recoveries
Severed, replaced, reunited
In June 1852 the New Jersey Medical Reporter printed an article about brain injuries. The following month a doctor from