A festive night in a Victorian emergency department
Christmas is always a difficult time of year for practitioners of emergency medicine. In the UK, accident and emergency departments […]
Medical shenanigans
Medical shenanigans
Medical shenanigans
Sheathed in a pig’s gut
In 1870 a Dr John P. Gray, of Utica, told this strange and rather sad little tale to a meeting
Medical shenanigans
She needs a finger
On July 26th 1911 The Los Angeles Times carried what must be the most extraordinary classified ad in its history. The editor
A case for Dr Bell
When I first read this case I found myself thinking that it would not be out of place in a
Medical shenanigans, Mysterious illnesses
A rotten trick
Here’s a cracking ‘news in brief’ item from an 1851 edition of The Lancet: A few days back a curious
Medical shenanigans, Unusual treatments
Benjamin Rush in The Lancet
Physician, chemist, writer and revolutionary: Benjamin Rush (1746-1813) was a remarkable man in a remarkable age. Arguably the greatest physician
Medical shenanigans
A medical duel
Medical disputes could be dangerous affairs in the old days. Two hundred years ago two physicians settled their differences not in the pages
A Victorian hospital Christmas
As a seasonal antidote to all the misery and medical disasters usually documented on this blog, here is something genuinely
Bewildering research, Medical shenanigans
Hard to stomach
In 1823 The Lancet’s regular summary of goings-on at the London hospitals contained this interesting report of an early public
Medical shenanigans
The bird and the bees
In August 1868 the British Association for the Advancement of Science held its annual meeting in Norwich. One of the