The guillotine – life after death?
In 1799, as the French Revolution entered its final phase and Napoleon prepared to seize power, European medics engaged in […]
Bewildering research
Bewildering research
Bewildering research, Unusual treatments
Smoking’s good for you – as long as you’re a priest
The editor of the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal surely had no idea of the furore that he was provoking
Bewildering research
A dissertation on pus
In 1785 the great English surgeon John Hunter and his Scottish colleague George Fordyce set up a medical society, the