Divine’s intervention
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Remarkable recoveries
Remarkable recoveries
Shear bad luck
In 1809 the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal printed this striking report of an agricultural accident from a surgeon in Ripon: August
Point-blank range
Being shot in the head with a revolver is not exactly a minor injury. But in 1875 the Medical Record published this
Born under a manger
In 1863 a surgeon from the small German town of Gräfenhainichen, Herr Geissler, wrote to one of the Berlin journals to
Remarkable recoveries
Get Out Of Jail Free
In 1823 a prominent London physician, John Ayrton Paris, published a book in collaboration with a barrister called J. S.
Horrifying operations, Remarkable recoveries
More than common danger
Sir Astley Cooper was the best known, and best paid, surgeon in early nineteenth-century London. He was a great innovator
Remarkable recoveries
The dislocated neck
This remarkable story was told in a French publication, the Journal Complémentaire du Dictionnaire des Sciences Médicales, in 1830. The
A harrowing incident
In 1873 the Chicago Medical Journal published this article by a Dr Stewart from Muscatine, a small Iowa town on
A week entombed in a snowdrift
In a week that’s seen snow across much of Britain and record low temperatures in parts of the US, this
The bladder shrimp
On the eve of the Battle of Waterloo the Duke of Wellington was making a final inspection of his troops