A shot in the dark
At the age of 14, George Ryerson Fowler ran away from his parents’ home in Jamaica and stowed away on […]
Remarkable recoveries
Remarkable recoveries
The perils of a sneeze
A few months ago I wrote about the criminal who was lucky to recover after inhaling a fake gold earring.
The miller’s daughter
The Medical and Philosophical Commentaries, first published in 1773, was one of the earliest journals intended as a regular digest
Remarkable recoveries, Unfortunate predicaments
A cautionary tale
This case was reported in the Saint Bartholomew’s Hospital Reports – the in-house journal published by the London hospital of
Difficult to swallow
Years ago, many leading hospitals had their own journals, with most or all of the articles produced by the institution’s
Remarkable recoveries
Moulded to the lid
The Victorian surgeon Sir Jonathan Hutchinson was ‘one of the great medical geniuses of his time’, according to his entry
Resuscitated by a Romanov
I came across this case quite by chance, drawn in by a striking headline. But after investigating a little further
A gallon a day keeps the doctor away
Bloodletting is one of the oldest medical treatments of all, employed for centuries in cultures all over the world. It’s
Remarkable recoveries
The boy with two skulls
My jaw hit the floor – in a metaphorical, not a literal, sense, although the latter circumstance would itself be
A pane in the eye
I have reported a few eye-watering tales on this blog in the past, but few stories deserve the epithet quite