A late arrival
Charles Delucena Meigs (1792-1869) was an American obstetrician of some eminence. His textbook Obstetrics, the Science and Art was influential […]
Prodigies and monsters
Prodigies and monsters
The woman with two wombs
This exceptional paper appeared in the Atlanta Medical and Surgical Journal, a relatively minor publication, in 1888. Thanks to its
Prodigies and monsters, Remarkable recoveries
The baby who was bathed in a tumbler
One area in which medicine has made gigantic strides in the last thirty years is the treatment of very premature
He swallowed a serpent
A curious phenomenon common to medical history and folklore is that of the bosom serpent – stories of snakes, frogs,
Notable deaths, Prodigies and monsters
The greatest phenomenon that nature has known
In 1849 a Spanish journal, La crónica de los hospitales, published a case supposed to have occurred some forty years
Prodigies and monsters
The man with two penises
On April 9th 1878 the professor of surgery at the University of Maryland, Dr Alan Smith, gave a talk at
A dubious paper
In 1813 the editor of The Medical and Physical Journal, Samuel Fothergill, accepted for publication a paper by John Spence,
Bewildering research, Prodigies and monsters
The amphibious infant
It is June 1873, and some very odd tidings are published in the latest edition of the Medical Notes and
The snuff-eating nose centipede
Here’s an alarming pair of cases reported in the first volume of the Medical Essays and Observations, published in 1764: