Hidden dangers - Thomas Morris

Painfully obvious

This spectacular case was published in the Medical Press and Circular, a leading Irish journal, in 1866. The author Dr […]

Thomas Morris / 3rd November 2020

This story has a delightful combination of youthful misadventure and surgical ingenuity. OK, so ‘delightful’ might be a bit of

Thomas Morris / 5th November 2018

It’s Guy Fawkes Night, the annual festival when we British celebrate (inter alia) the barbaric torture and execution of a

In 1846 John Kyle, a surgeon from the Ohio village of Cedarville, submitted the following case report to The Western

Thomas Morris / 24th January 2018

In 1882 a young doctor from Clayton West in Yorkshire had his first paper published in a major medical journal.

Thomas Morris / 21st January 2018

One evening in 1877 a medical student at the University of Paris, a young man by the name of Vielle,

Thomas Morris / 11th December 2017

In December 1761 a leading French journal, the Journal of Medicine, Surgery and Pharmacy, published a splendid little article by

Thomas Morris / 27th October 2017

In 1834 the Lancet published a wonderfully unusual article by Walter Dendy, a surgeon from Blackfriars in London. The heading

There are plenty of common myths about Victorian social mores, but anything you have read about their disapproval of onanism

In March 1827 The London Medical Repository and Review included a short report of an inquest which had been held