Unfortunate predicaments - Thomas Morris

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In 1827 The London Medical and Physical Journal published a short report on what it called a case of ‘infibulation’. […]

The year is 1827, and if you wish to apprise yourself of the latest and most important developments in medicine

Here’s something that will make you wince, and then marvel at the human body’s recuperative abilities. In 1849 Dr Thomas

The Annals of Medicine for the Year 1802 are the source of today’s extraordinary goings-on. This case was reported by John

Here’s a case reported in the London Medical Gazette in 1839 which we must file under ‘unbelievably stupid things done

In 1837 the Dublin Medical Journal published a short article by a Dr Lees entitled, simply, ‘Wounds of the Heart’.

Eighteenth-century authors were fond of giving their books ridiculously long titles – often so lengthy that they weren’t titles at

I recently wrote about a case of deafness believed to have been caused by a kiss – but here’s another

Samuel Gross was a giant of nineteenth-century American surgery, the author of numerous influential textbooks, including the first manual of

Thomas Morris / 25th February 2017

Here’s a wince-inducing case published in the Dublin Medical Press in 1853, and contributed by a Dr Jameson: Peter Nowlan, aged