A harrowing incident
In 1873 the Chicago Medical Journal published this article by a Dr Stewart from Muscatine, a small Iowa town on […]
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The foot-long bladder stone
This short article appeared in a Norfolk local newspaper, the Norwich Gazette, on June 7th 1746: On Sunday last was
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The accidental hysterectomy
In 1840 one Dr Drane, a physician from Louisville in Kentucky, wrote a short communication to the Western Journal of
Fifty years ahead of his time
I’m writing this post on the 122nd anniversary of the first attempt at heart surgery, which took place in Norway
The boy who choked on his gold
I came across this interesting story in the Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Surgery at Paris, a collection of
The case of the drunken Dutchman’s guts
On August 28th 1641 the 21-year-old English diarist John Evelyn visited the great university of Leiden in the Netherlands. He
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If you can’t find a surgeon…
…employ a butcher. That, at least, is the advice implied by this unusual eighteenth-century case:The hamlet of Clogher in Co
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The ‘first’ heart transplant
Do you know who performed the world’s first heart transplant ? The surgeon usually credited with the feat is the
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The human clarinet
At a meeting of the Glasgow Pathological and Clinical Society on November 13th 1877, members had a rare treat. The
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An extraordinary surgical operation
Last week I came across an article which took my breath away. It was published in 1858, in an American