Unfortunate predicaments

Aleing all day, and oiling all night

Thomas Morris / 16th October 2015

Those who think that morbid obesity is a uniquely modern phenomenon should read William Wadd’s ‘Comments on Corpulency’, published over […]

Thomas Morris / 7th October 2015

An article from an 1831 edition of the London Medical Gazette begins unpromisingly: Enlargement of the testes, scrotal tumors, and hydrocele,

Thomas Morris / 2nd September 2015

A peculiar case was reported to readers of The Lancet in 1856 by Dr Jonathan Green, the proprietor of a

Thomas Morris / 29th August 2015

A grisly tale, but one with a happy ending: John Nedham wrote to the Philosophical Transactions in 1756 with news

Thomas Morris / 24th August 2015

In 1824 the Transactions of the Association of Fellows and Licentiates of the King and Queen’s College of Physicians in

A previous post about the boy who vomited millipedes proved surprisingly popular – so when I came across this tale of

Compulsive swallowers have always featured heavily in medical literature. There are numerous cases in 19th-century journals – but most of

On the 14th of May, 1867, Dr Jewett of Summit County, Ohio, was called to see Joel Lenn, 27, a

Here’s a painful tale from The Journal of Foreign Medical Science and Literature, published in 1823: not for children or

The New-Orleans Medical Journal for 1844 contains this tale of a lucky escape, an ingenious doctor and a very naughty