Reeking from the jaw of the living animal
The 1843 volume of The Dublin Journal of Medical Science contains this gem from Mr Robert Twiss, a surgeon from […]
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The spear and the eucalyptus tree
In 1891 The Lancet printed this case report by Andrew Ross, a doctor who some years earlier had been practising
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Toast and herbs
William Salmon was a seventeenth-century physician and a prolific writer, the author of numerous books on surgery and internal medicine.
Snake poo salesman
In 1862 an Edinburgh-trained physician, Dr James Hastings, published a slim volume about the treatment of tuberculosis and other diseases
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On flatulence and Darwin
In 1867 The Medical Press and Circular published a series of articles by the physician Dr John Chapman on a
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Rattlesnakes and brandy
Around 7,000 people in the US are bitten by venomous snakes every year. Many of these are rattlesnake bites, but
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How to treat hay fever?
This is hay fever season (if you’re reading this in the northern hemisphere, at least) – the time of year
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Boiling water and birch twigs
In 1843 a Dr T.O. Ward wrote to the London Medical Gazette on the subject of pain. A previous correspondent
Champagne ad libitum
Morning sickness is a common affliction which affects the majority of pregnant women. A few suffer a far more debilitating
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The incredible shrinking man
It must have been a slow news week when The Medical Record decided to print the following story in July