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The double monster

The phenomenon of conjoined twins was poorly understood until the twentieth century. Though even the earliest medical journals contain reports […]

In 1852 the editor of the North American Lancet, Dr Horace Nelson, reported an unfortunate turn of events. His prose

At a meeting of the Edinburgh Medico-Chirurgical Society in 1850, a Professor Miller spoke about an unusual case from his

In 1875 the American surgeon Charles Brigham recorded this wince-inducing case from his practice in San Francisco. The details are

Here’s a story so replete with ghastly details that if it happened today it would immediately be featured in a TV

Here’s an entertaining snippet from Guy’s Medical Jurisprudence from 1812, concerning a young man who really didn’t want to be in

In 1851 a physician from Ohio, Dr P.J. Buckner, was at a meeting of the State Medical Society when he got

This blog has on several occasions chronicled the unlikely range of foreign objects which patients have managed to get stuck

With debate raging about the virtues (or otherwise) of eating a low-fat diet, it was interesting to come across this

A miraculous recovery today, taken from the pages of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. This report was published