A forgotten thing
This case, published in the Buffalo Medical and Surgical Journal in 1865, is one that makes you marvel at the […]
Remarkable recoveries
Notable deaths
The colonic carpentry kit
The ‘foreign correspondence’ pages of one 1861 issue of the Medical Times contain an eclectic selection of stories. The first
Remarkable recoveries
The healing power of nature
At the annual meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association in August 1844, a doctor from Newport Pagnell in
Notable deaths, Primitive equipment
Death of an earl
On a warm August afternoon a man in his fifties is enjoying a game of bowls in the affluent English
The slugs and the porcupine
According to an old journalistic adage, if a newspaper headline contains a question the correct answer is always ‘no’. For
Prodigies and monsters, Remarkable recoveries
The 43-year pregnancy
In years gone by, it was quite common for a doctor to pass on his practice to one of his
The other Horatio Nelson
The Canadian physician Henry Horatio Nelson was born six years after the Battle of Trafalgar, so it does not take
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
Medical shenanigans
A receipt for making a rupture
In the 1820s the British physician John Cheyne made a special study of the numerous ways in which soldiers tried