Cosmetic(s) surgery
This unexpected discovery was reported in a French journal, the Répertoire Generale d’Anatomie, in 1827. The patient was treated by […]
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Rare and peculiar
“How did it happen?” is a question every emergency physician will ask hundreds if not thousands of times during their
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Show and tell
In 1828 The Lancet reported a routine meeting of the London Medical Society. It began with a memorable presentation given by
Notable deaths, Unfortunate predicaments
The lithophagus
Unless you’re a marine biologist, the chances are that you’ve never used the word ‘lithophagus’. You may have eaten one,
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Born in a cesspit
This strange little tale appeared in the London Medical and Surgical Journal in June 1832: A curious case of this description became
The lucky Prussian
Maximilian Joseph von Chelius was a prominent 19th-century German surgeon who had a significant influence on medics right across Europe.
Notable deaths, Unfortunate predicaments
An enormous eater
Albert Vander Veer was a distinguished New York surgeon of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A Civil War
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Mr Dendy’s egg-cup case
In 1834 the Lancet published a wonderfully unusual article by Walter Dendy, a surgeon from Blackfriars in London. The heading
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Media vita in morte sumus
“In the midst of life we are in death”, in the words of the funeral service of the Book of
He sliced his penis in two
This case sounds so implausible that you may start thinking it’s a spoof. I assure you it’s not: I came