Remarkable recoveries

In June 1852 the New Jersey Medical Reporter printed an article about brain injuries. The following month a doctor from […]

The Scottish surgeon Archibald Blacklock is chiefly remembered today for the events of the night of March 31st, 1834, when

In 1840 an American physician, Dr Pliny Earle, visited the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in London.

Today’s surgeons are quite adept at reattaching parts of the body when they have been severed. Fingers, hands and even

In 1855 The Lancet reported the proceedings of the most recent meeting of the London Medical Society. Here is one

I’ve documented a few extraordinary injuries in this blog, but perhaps none as remarkable as this one. The New England

In May 1884 The Lancet’s Paris correspondent reported the following:  There is to be seen at Landrecies, in the Department