Remarkable recoveries

Two spoonsful of brain on the pillow

Here’s a story so replete with ghastly details that if it happened today it would immediately be featured in a TV […]

Here’s an entertaining snippet from Guy’s Medical Jurisprudence from 1812, concerning a young man who really didn’t want to be in

A miraculous recovery today, taken from the pages of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. This report was published

In 1807 the Philadelphia Medical Museum was sent an extraordinary case report by a local doctor who had been ‘sent

In 1843 a Dr T.O. Ward wrote to the London Medical Gazette on the subject of pain. A previous correspondent

An article published in The Lancet in 1848 contains a remarkable and early example of the power of the placebo

In 1737 the Philosophical Transactions published a medical case so remarkable that it was still being quoted in journals well

In 1857 the Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery reported this unusual case of childbirth. What is particularly remarkable about

Here’s an arresting story from 1870, reported to the Chicago Medical Times by a Dr J.F. Snyder: James Thompson, sixty

On April 16th 1828 a ship called the New York sailed from its eponymous home port destined for Liverpool. She