Horrifying operations

A window in his chest

Thomas Morris / 21st November 2016

Occasionally a single operation is deemed so impressive that it goes down in history under the name of the surgeon […]

Thomas Morris / 16th November 2016

When Dr Samuel White, a doctor from the town of Hudson in upstate New York, took on this case in

Thomas Morris / 11th November 2016

Isidor Glück was a Hungarian surgeon who emigrated to London and then the United States in the early 1850s. As

Great surgeons are usually remembered for their successes rather than their failures. Sir Astley Cooper, one of the preeminent figures

The great French surgeon Guillaume Dupuytren was known to his unfortunate juniors as ‘the Napoleon of surgery’ and ‘the brigand

Browsing an 1869 edition of The Lancet I stumbled across a short news article with this promising headline: A cutting from an

In 1875 the American surgeon Charles Brigham recorded this wince-inducing case from his practice in San Francisco. The details are

In 1807 the Philadelphia Medical Museum was sent an extraordinary case report by a local doctor who had been ‘sent

In December 1871 Dr B. B. Leonard, a general practitioner from West Liberty, Ohio, was summoned to examine ‘J.J.’, a

On the 19th of May, 1846, a Dr Harris from Harrisville in Virginia was summoned to treat a young man