Remarkable recoveries

Lost and found

Years ago I remember watching a TV documentary about the Royal Navy Field Gun Competition, a yearly tournament in which […]

Thomas Morris / 27th February 2016

In 1855 the editor of the Western Lancet, Dr T. Wood, published an article in his own journal on the

Thomas Morris / 20th February 2016

Here’s a spectacular head injury (and recovery) reported in the Transactions of the Wisconsin State Medical Society in 1869. This

Thomas Morris / 15th February 2016

In June 1879 the Chicago Telegraph made quite a splash with a story published under this headline: Probably the most

Thomas Morris / 27th January 2016

Medics and their journals have always loved a curiosity, however long ago it occurred. This case was reported in the

Thomas Morris / 16th January 2016

Have you ever wondered how patients in the era before anaesthetics were persuaded to undergo excruciatingly painful operations? The answer

Thomas Morris / 1st January 2016

How about this for a lucky escape? It’s the sort of grisly farm accident which might be featured in a

Thomas Morris / 7th December 2015

Maxillofacial surgeons are some of the most ridiculously overqualified people on the planet. In the UK it is compulsory for

Thomas Morris / 2nd December 2015

In 1777 a local surgeon wrote to the Medical and Philosophical Commentaries to pass on a story he had heard

Thomas Morris / 11th November 2015

Early nineteenth-century doctors had some funny ideas about treating infectious disease. Before the discovery of microbes, next to nothing was