An unfortunate couple
Johann Georg Steigerthal was an eminent German medic of the early seventeenth century. In 1715 he was appointed court physician […]
Unfortunate predicaments
Unfortunate predicaments
Mysterious illnesses, Unfortunate predicaments
An unwelcome visitor
A short news item published in 1843 by the Gazette Médicale de Paris contains the sort of case that would
The cheese knife lobotomy
This alarming headline was attached to a letter sent to The Lancet in 1838 by Dr Congreve Selwyn, a family
Bewildering research, Unfortunate predicaments
The seventy-year-old mother-to-be
Here’s a truly strange case that was reported in the Journal de Médécine de Paris in 1881. It concerns an
The case of the drunken Dutchman’s guts
On August 28th 1641 the 21-year-old English diarist John Evelyn visited the great university of Leiden in the Netherlands. He
Mysterious illnesses, Unfortunate predicaments
A flaming nuisance
In 1886 a physician from Glasgow, Dr George Beatson, wrote to the British Medical Journal with a rather unusual tale.
Remarkable recoveries, Unfortunate predicaments
Hook, line and Liston
In 1844 the great surgeon Robert Liston gave an influential series of lectures at University College London on the technique
The monk with a perfume bottle stuck up his bottom
Today’s dose of medical mishap is excerpted from an influential textbook published in 1837 by George Bushe, a surgeon who
Remarkable recoveries, Unfortunate predicaments
The lancer lanced
On November 9th 1869 a private from the 5th Royal Irish Lancers, ‘Richard F.’, arrived at the Royal Victoria Hospital
Remarkable recoveries, Unfortunate predicaments
A strange tale
Today’s tale is a ‘news in brief’ item published by The Medical Standard in 1895: Drs. Hart and Watts of