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Why children should never wear hats

I recently came across a charming little medical book aimed at children, and first published in Germany in the 18th […]

The index for Volume 5 of The Lancet, published in 1824, contains this intriguing entry: Indexes are not often used

On April 1st 1841 Thomas Young, a labourer at a forge, walked into the Metropolitan Free Hospital in London and

In 1785 the great English surgeon John Hunter and his Scottish colleague George Fordyce set up a medical society, the

Some truly bizarre goings-on were reported at the Exeter meeting of the Provincial Surgical and Medical Association in 1842. A

Here’s something to get unnecessarily worried about: apparently it’s possible to catch a disease through an electric wire! As reported

Samuel Auguste André David Tissot was an eminent Swiss physician of the eighteenth century, best known as the author of

News of a strange malady, unique to the inhabitants of a single country, comes from the edition of The Medical

William Harvey is deservedly one of the most famous physicians who ever lived. His demonstration that the heart is a

Spontaneous human combustion became a fashionable topic in the early nineteenth century, when a number of sensational presumed cases were