Remarkable recoveries

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Thomas Morris / 18th January 2017

One of the things that strikes me every time I look at a medical journal published between about 1850 and […]

Thomas Morris / 14th January 2017

In 1836 a doctor from rural Ireland, J.L. McCarthy, encountered a highly unusual case which he then reported to The

Thomas Morris / 15th December 2016

In June 1809 a French military surgeon, M. Fardeau, read a paper at a meeting of the Société de Médecine

Thomas Morris / 18th November 2016

Sometimes doctors don’t have all the answers. Here’s a case in which the medics actually gave up on their patient,

Thomas Morris / 14th November 2016

Here’s a tale of misadventure so stupid that it wouldn’t be out of place in the annual Darwin Awards. This case

Thomas Morris / 9th November 2016

In 1891 The Lancet printed this case report by Andrew Ross, a doctor who some years earlier had been practising

Thomas Morris / 2nd November 2016

Here’s a case from The Medical Museum published in 1764 – more than seventy years after the patient had been

Thomas Morris / 24th October 2016

In 1868 the Richmond Medical Journal reported an extraordinary accident which had befallen a 9-year-old boy at a cotton press

Thomas Morris / 17th October 2016

Here’s a strange little tale which – unusually for this blog – does not involve a single doctor, since the

Thomas Morris / 22nd September 2016

Volume 6 of the Medical Facts and Observations, published in London in 1795, includes four cases submitted by a Dr