Notable deaths - Thomas Morris

Death by onanism

Thomas Morris / 6th November 2020

Victorian society was famously paranoid about the dangers of masturbation. For teachers, priests and those with responsibility for young people, […]

Thomas Morris / 19th September 2020

This (almost) incredible case report was printed in The Medical and Physical Journal in 1812, but dates from almost forty

This case was published in the Report of the Army Medical Department for 1873, an annual publication produced by the

Thomas Morris / 22nd February 2019

This notable case report was published in the Medico-Chirurgical Transactions in 1852. The author, John Marshall, was a young surgeon

In 1873 Thomas Lauder Brunton was asked to give a lecture to the Abernethian Society of St Bartholomew’s Hospital in

In 1849 a Spanish journal, La crónica de los hospitales, published a case supposed to have occurred some forty years

One of the most popular stories on this blog is that of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who cut his own penis

In is not unheard of for a soldier to be killed as the result of a swordfight. But it is

There is a long and often honourable history of self-experimentation in medicine. Medical pioneers have often been unwilling or unable

Thomas Morris / 15th January 2018

Unless you’re a marine biologist, the chances are that you’ve never used the word ‘lithophagus’. You may have eaten one,