Mysterious illnesses - Thomas Morris

The deserter

Here’s an entertaining snippet from Guy’s Medical Jurisprudence from 1812, concerning a young man who really didn’t want to be in […]

In 1851 a physician from Ohio, Dr P.J. Buckner, was at a meeting of the State Medical Society when he got

Here’s a cracking ‘news in brief’ item from an 1851 edition of The Lancet: A few days back a curious

In 1781 an eminent Scottish doctor, Thomas Simson, reported this unusual case in the pages of the Medical Museum: A

In 1783 the Medical Commentaries received a striking communication on a curious subject: worms in the nose. It came from

In September 1842 a young man called William Howard went to the army recruiting depot at Coventry, hoping to join

Earlier this week a reader of this blog introduced me to a term I hadn’t encountered before: the ‘bosom serpent’.

English is littered with words which were originally medical in their application but which have found broader or figurative usage.

Thomas Morris / 29th February 2016

As regular readers of this blog may be aware, early medical journals often carried tales of unlikely creatures found living

Thomas Morris / 19th February 2016

Update: this story will be featured in my new book, The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the