John Keats: Ode to a Black Eye
On the first day of the Ashes Test at Lord’s, here is a cricketing curiosity – a Romantic poet picking up […]
Unfortunate predicaments
Unfortunate predicaments, Unusual treatments
A bit of a headache
One of the things that all first-aiders should know is that blades or other penetrating objects should never be removed from
Unfortunate predicaments
The man who fought a duel in his sleep
If you’ve ever shared a house with a habitual sleepwalker, you may be familiar with the strange experience of having
Unfortunate predicaments
Give that man a medal
On June 29th 1865 Jacques Roellinger, a private in ‘B’ Company of the New York Volunteers, asked to be released
Unfortunate predicaments
Dear oh dear
In 1829 a fifty-year-old labourer, John Marsh, was knocked down and run over by a cart laden with bricks. He