Unfortunate predicaments

Killed by a corkscrew

At a meeting of the Edinburgh Medico-Chirurgical Society in 1850, a Professor Miller spoke about an unusual case from his […]

In 1875 the American surgeon Charles Brigham recorded this wince-inducing case from his practice in San Francisco. The details are

This blog has on several occasions chronicled the unlikely range of foreign objects which patients have managed to get stuck

Have you ever woken up after a night on the town, not entirely sure how the evening ended? In 1850

The runaway winner of the prize for Best Book Title of 1833, had such an award existed, would surely have

In 1783 the Medical Commentaries received a striking communication on a curious subject: worms in the nose. It came from

On the 19th of May, 1846, a Dr Harris from Harrisville in Virginia was summoned to treat a young man

In 1737 the Philosophical Transactions published a medical case so remarkable that it was still being quoted in journals well

In 1869 Dr Felix Rubio, a physician in Colombia, wrote to the Medical Times and Gazette on the subject of

Eels seem to have featured regularly in this blog, for some reason. First there was the physician who had a