Notable deaths - Thomas Morris

The King of Smokers

Thomas Morris / 1st September 2016

There were plenty of doctors in the nineteenth century who thought that smoking was good for you; so there’s nothing […]

In 1824 King Kamehameha II and Queen Kamāmalu of Hawaii made a state visit to Britain. The kingdom of Hawaii

Last night was a dramatic one in London, with electrical storms and flash floods. It’s been a bad year for

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

In 1828 The Lancet reported the antics of a person they called ‘the fire-proof man’, a Cuban with extraordinary abilities:

The invention of the guillotine in 1789 coincided with a dark era in French history. The phase of the revolution

In 1837 The Lancet reported a cause of death previously unknown in the annals of medical science. Its report begins:

In 1763 a doctor from Malling in Kent, identifying himself only as ‘W.P.’, reported this strange case in The Medical

Thomas Morris / 13th February 2016

Here’s a case which wouldn’t surprise a modern medic, but which caused considerable puzzlement when it occurred in the first

Thomas Morris / 21st January 2016

Here’s a ‘news in brief’ item which appeared in the British Medical Journal in 1863, under this headline:A warder of