Dancing testicles
The runaway winner of the prize for Best Book Title of 1833, had such an award existed, would surely have […]
Unfortunate predicaments
Unusual treatments
The incredible shrinking man
It must have been a slow news week when The Medical Record decided to print the following story in July
Mysterious illnesses, Unfortunate predicaments
Worms in the nose
In 1783 the Medical Commentaries received a striking communication on a curious subject: worms in the nose. It came from
Horrifying operations, Unfortunate predicaments
A beetroot up the bottom
On the 19th of May, 1846, a Dr Harris from Harrisville in Virginia was summoned to treat a young man
Remarkable recoveries, Unfortunate predicaments
The miller’s tale
In 1737 the Philosophical Transactions published a medical case so remarkable that it was still being quoted in journals well
Unfortunate predicaments
Replete of vermin
In 1869 Dr Felix Rubio, a physician in Colombia, wrote to the Medical Times and Gazette on the subject of
Scared to death?
The invention of the guillotine in 1789 coincided with a dark era in French history. The phase of the revolution
Remarkable recoveries
The redoubtable Mrs H
In 1857 the Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery reported this unusual case of childbirth. What is particularly remarkable about
Prodigies and monsters
Inexpressibly loathsome and sickening
Unlikely tales were often swallowed unquestioningly by the editors of medical journals in the nineteenth century, so it was a
Remarkable recoveries
The man who coughed up a knife
Here’s an arresting story from 1870, reported to the Chicago Medical Times by a Dr J.F. Snyder: James Thompson, sixty