The stone bullet
In 1829 a surgeon from Wolverhampton, William Lewis, contributed this unusual surgical tale to The Lancet: John Roden, a boy about […]
Horrifying operations, Unfortunate predicaments
Unfortunate predicaments
Unfortunate predicaments
The safety valve
This case was reported in 1896 in the Medico-Chirurgical Transactions by a surgeon, Rickman Godlee, who was a distant relative
Horrifying operations, Unfortunate predicaments
A watch spring, a bean and a clove of garlic
An 1868 issue of a French journal, the Bulletin général de thérapeutique médicale et chirurgical, contains this case report contributed
Jules Cloquet: the surgeon as artist
The French surgeon Jules Germain Cloquet was a man of many talents. A member of the Paris Academy of Medicine,
Unfortunate predicaments
The missing member
A strange case of mistaken identity was reported in the Berliner klinische Wochenschrift in 1874, and subsequently translated in the
Claws for concern
Philipp Franz von Walther was an eminent German surgeon highly regarded for his expertise in ophthalmology and as a pioneer
Horrifying operations, Unfortunate predicaments
The spoon swallower
Here’s an intriguing snippet reported by the Paris correspondent of the Lancet in September 1882: We have now a patient
Odds bodkins
This fascinating case report was published in the Philosophical Transactions in 1701, contributed by a distinguished Dublin physician, Thomas Molyneux. It
A remarkable dislocation
Charles White was an eminent Manchester surgeon of the eighteenth century. As a young man he studied anatomy in London
Unfortunate predicaments
The pork cylinder
A few days ago I was reading an article about foreign bodies in the bladder – for what better way