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