An immense plug of wood
Sometimes a headline says it all. In June 1842 the London Medical Gazette printed a letter under this memorable title: […]
Unfortunate predicaments
Unfortunate predicaments
Unfortunate predicaments
Occupational hazard
Here’s a striking report from The London Medical and Surgical Journal, originally published in March 1837. The headline is straightforward
Unfortunate predicaments
Jumping over a broomstick
During a meeting of the New York Pathological Society in 1872, a local physician called Dr Post gave a short
Unfortunate predicaments
Degloved by a donkey
Mercer’s Hospital, founded in 1734, was for many years one of the most important teaching hospitals in Ireland – but
Unfortunate predicaments
Fourteen fingers
August is sometimes known as the ‘silly season’: a period of the year when little seems to be happening, politics
Unfortunate predicaments
A likely story
The French surgeon Jean Civiale was one of the most significant figures in the history of urology, the branch of
Born under a manger
In 1863 a surgeon from the small German town of Gräfenhainichen, Herr Geissler, wrote to one of the Berlin journals to
A practical joke
Some of the greatest advances in nineteenth-century surgery were made by military surgeons. British surgeons were not exactly short of
Notable deaths, Unfortunate predicaments
Irritating the genitals by various means
One of the most popular stories on this blog is that of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who cut his own penis
She swallowed a mouse
In 1833 one Dr Heymann, a doctor from the Westphalian town of Oldendorf, submitted a really rather extraordinary case to