Mysterious illnesses - Thomas Morris

Evacuated with a spoon

Thomas Morris / 14th January 2017

In 1836 a doctor from rural Ireland, J.L. McCarthy, encountered a highly unusual case which he then reported to The […]

Thomas Morris / 4th January 2017

Here’s a landmark case from the Philosophical Transactions, reported by the Plymouth surgeon James Yonge in 1709: A girl 16

Thomas Morris / 8th December 2016

Here’s a tall tale from 1856, published in The Medical Times and Gazette: Some interesting experiments were made at the

Thomas Morris / 25th November 2016

In 1874 The Lancet printed this cautionary tale by Thomas Whiteside Hime, who had discovered the hard way that things

Thomas Morris / 27th September 2016

This is the most extraordinary and perplexing case of all the many I’ve sifted through while finding material for this

Thomas Morris / 12th September 2016

In 1873 The Lancet reported this case from Belford Hospital, an institution which had been founded eight years earlier, and

Thomas Morris / 25th August 2016

In 1867 The Medical Press and Circular published a series of articles by the physician Dr John Chapman on a

In 1852 The Monthly Journal of Medical Science published a report from Burma, where British forces had just begun to

Those who have first-hand experience of somnambulism will know that sleepwalkers are often capable of surprisingly complex tasks. While most

In July 1842 the London Medical Gazette printed one of the most intriguing headlines in the history of the journal: