A disarming experience
The French surgeon Alphonse Guérin is hardly a household name today – but for a brief period in the late […]
Mysterious illnesses
Mysterious illnesses
The wandering needle
In 1889 a surgeon from the Adelaide Hospital in Dublin, Kendal Franks, wrote a notable case report for the British
Mysterious illnesses
An extraordinary quantity of worms
In 1801 a contingent of 20,000 soldiers commanded by General Charles Leclerc, the brother-in-law of Napoleon Bonaparte, set sail for
Mysterious illnesses
Revealed: the cure for hiccups
A striking report* was published in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal in 1845 by Dr George Dexter, a physician
Mysterious illnesses, Notable deaths
The trumpeter and the walking stick
In is not unheard of for a soldier to be killed as the result of a swordfight. But it is
Medical shenanigans, Mysterious illnesses
Asleep while she gave birth
Things have been rather quiet on this blog in recent weeks, so apologies if you’ve been missing your regular fix
Mysterious illnesses
An enormous concretion
At a meeting of the Pathological Society of London in 1855, members were shown a specimen that might have been
Mysterious illnesses, Primitive equipment
The spermatorrhoea alarm
In 1843 the Provincial Medical Journal published a landmark paper by Dr W.H. Ranking from Suffolk. It was a ‘landmark’
Mysterious illnesses
In hospital for 34 years
In December 1886 the Cincinnati Enquirer published an exclusive from its New York correspondent. He had uncovered an amazing story
Mysterious illnesses
The very hungry schoolboy
The name of Dr Richard Patrick Satterley is more or less unknown today, but in the early years of the