Bewildering research - Thomas Morris

The carrot cataplasm

Pretty much any substance you care to mention has, at one time or another, been touted as a cure for […]

Thomas Morris / 8th January 2021

There’s a good chance that you’ll be at the sharp end of a hypodermic needle over the next few months

Thomas Morris / 19th August 2019

‘First, do no harm.’ You may be familiar with this aphorism, which in the last hundred years or so has

Thomas Morris / 20th August 2018

Here’s an intriguing article from the American Medico-Surgical Bulletin of 1895, summarising a paper published in a German journal: The

The Canadian physician Henry Horatio Nelson was born six years after the Battle of Trafalgar, so it does not take

Here’s a truly strange case that was reported in the Journal de Médécine de Paris in 1881. It concerns an

It is June 1873, and some very odd tidings are published in the latest edition of the Medical Notes and

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

This was the front page story in The Lancet on July 11th 1835. It’s a glorious case, but I think

One interesting aspect of nineteenth-century medicine is the fact that many clinicians were convinced that every ailment could be traced