Hit in the face with a cow’s stomach
In October 1852 a Bristol surgeon called Augustin Prichard gave a talk at the Bath and Bristol branch of the […]
Unfortunate predicaments
The privy spider
This painful case was recorded in the American Journal of the Medical Sciences in 1839. The author, Dr Isaac Hulse,
Mysterious illnesses
Off the scale
It is not often that an author in a major medical journal thinks it necessary to state that they are
Magnifique! Delicieux!
The French surgeon Auguste Nélaton is one of those figures better known for the company he kept than for what
Horrifying operations, Unfortunate predicaments
The stone bullet
In 1829 a surgeon from Wolverhampton, William Lewis, contributed this unusual surgical tale to The Lancet: John Roden, a boy about
Horrifying operations, Remarkable recoveries
Bruit force
Committee reports aren’t exactly famed for their entertainment value. But while leafing through the 1850 volume of the Transactions of
Notable deaths, Remarkable recoveries
A near miss
This case was published in the Report of the Army Medical Department for 1873, an annual publication produced by the
Unfortunate predicaments
The safety valve
This case was reported in 1896 in the Medico-Chirurgical Transactions by a surgeon, Rickman Godlee, who was a distant relative