Remarkable recoveries - Thomas Morris

A strange tale

Today’s tale is a ‘news in brief’ item published by The Medical Standard in 1895: Drs. Hart and Watts of […]

Today’s post is something of a rarity, since it comes from a medical journal which only existed for a year,

Last week I came across an article which took my breath away. It was published in 1858, in an American

In November 1828 several English-language journals picked up a case which had appeared in the Revue Medicale, a French medical

In 1869 The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal reported the following unusual case which had taken place a few years

After countless hours reading dreadful stories in medical journals I’m rarely shocked by a case, but this one [no need

I recently stumbled across this intriguing snippet in John Cooke’s A Treatise on Nervous Diseases (1824): I am informed by

Gunshot wounds have always been a particular challenge for the medic. Some of the oldest surgical manuals contain advice on

One of the overwhelming priorities of medicine in the eighteenth century was the improvement of resuscitation methods. Drowning was a

Thomas Morris / 6th February 2017

Today’s medical journals pride themselves on their topicality, publishing the latest research as soon as it’s available – but those