A span in length
More strange news from the Philosophical Transactions, the venerable journal of the Royal Society. This brief report was contributed in […]
Remarkable recoveries
Remarkable recoveries
The boy who choked on his gold
I came across this interesting story in the Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Surgery at Paris, a collection of
Remarkable recoveries
A forgotten thing
This case, published in the Buffalo Medical and Surgical Journal in 1865, is one that makes you marvel at the
Remarkable recoveries
The healing power of nature
At the annual meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association in August 1844, a doctor from Newport Pagnell in
Prodigies and monsters, Remarkable recoveries
The 43-year pregnancy
In years gone by, it was quite common for a doctor to pass on his practice to one of his
The cheese knife lobotomy
This alarming headline was attached to a letter sent to The Lancet in 1838 by Dr Congreve Selwyn, a family
Remarkable recoveries
The man whose intestines twinkled like stars
Every so often I read an old medical case that makes me wince and ask myself, “However did they recover
The case of the drunken Dutchman’s guts
On August 28th 1641 the 21-year-old English diarist John Evelyn visited the great university of Leiden in the Netherlands. He
Remarkable recoveries, Unfortunate predicaments
Hook, line and Liston
In 1844 the great surgeon Robert Liston gave an influential series of lectures at University College London on the technique
Remarkable recoveries, Unfortunate predicaments
The lancer lanced
On November 9th 1869 a private from the 5th Royal Irish Lancers, ‘Richard F.’, arrived at the Royal Victoria Hospital