Brolly painful
It’s a great headline, but I can’t take any credit for it. When I was at school one of my […]
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Hidden dangers, Horrifying operations
A head of wheat in the bladder
In December 1871 Dr B. B. Leonard, a general practitioner from West Liberty, Ohio, was summoned to examine ‘J.J.’, a
Eye eye
Have you ever woken up after a night on the town, not entirely sure how the evening ended? In 1850
Hidden dangers, Unfortunate predicaments
Unfortunate injury of the decade
Here’s a story published 150 years ago in the British Medical Journal which made me wince on at least four
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The hidden dangers of a Victorian Christmas
In the last (I promise) of my trilogy of Christmas disasters, here is a warning of the dangers of festive
The perils of the Christmas pudding
Continuing this blog’s recent Christmas theme, here’s a short article originally printed in the Medical Adviser in 1825. It was
Hidden dangers, Notable deaths
Death by Christmas dinner
If you haven’t yet bought everything for your Christmas dinner, this tale from almost 200 years ago may cause you
Hidden dangers, Unusual treatments
In praise of temperance
It seems appropriate on a Friday to share this warning about the dangers of binge drinking, from William Buchan’s Domestic
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An ‘unnatural propensity’ and its perils
Until the early twentieth century, medicine had little to say about heart disease. Although the best specialists of the nineteenth
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Stay of execution?
An angry Dr Tuson from Fitzrovia writes to the London Medical Journal in 1831. He begins with an apology: Though I