The complete works

 

 

  • A tale of two inventions

  • A shot in the dark

  • Metal in her mammaries

  • So much chaff called brains

  • Cover story

  • Painfully obvious

  • The cabbage catastrophe

  • The carrot cataplasm

  • The perils of a sneeze

  • The miller’s daughter

  • A late arrival

  • An uncommon injury

  • A cautionary tale

  • Under the skin

  • Libel and lithotomy

  • Difficult to swallow

  • Moulded to the lid

  • Resuscitated by a Romanov

  • Death by onanism

  • The golden pin

  • The surgeon and the smugglers

  • The woman with two wombs

  • The galley slave and the barrel hoop

  • Specific gravity

  • A gallon a day keeps the doctor away

  • An unusual route

  • The bacon factory eyelid transplant

  • A mystery diagnosis

  • The heart surgeon and the Nazis

  • The boy with two skulls

  • A real-life murder mystery from old Dublin

  • Emergency coffee

  • Revolutions in surgery

  • Removed without the least difficulty

  • A pane in the eye

  • A triumph of surgery

  • Nobody nose

  • Do no harm

  • Pricked it all over with a fine needle

  • Conversation with a ghost

  • Hit in the face with a cow’s stomach

  • The privy spider

  • Off the scale

  • The bottom feeder

  • An English emigrant to Canada

  • Magnifique! Delicieux!

  • The stone bullet

  • Bruit force

  • A near miss

  • The safety valve

  • Millipede meningitis

  • Ulysse Trélat and an implausible discovery

  • A watch spring, a bean and a clove of garlic

  • The lemonade enema

  • The practical joke

  • Jules Cloquet: the surgeon as artist

  • Britain’s first heart surgeon

  • A wonderful accumulation

  • The missing member

  • The electric centipede

  • The first caesarean in Ireland

  • An infinite number of worms

  • A knotty problem

  • Eighth time lucky

  • The child who swallowed a pin

  • Four lambs and two puppies

  • Claws for concern

  • The tin box

  • The spoon swallower

  • Odds bodkins

  • The baby who was bathed in a tumbler

  • He swallowed a serpent

  • Bedtime stories

  • Stand well back

  • The fiery finger

  • Shafted

  • A remarkable dislocation

  • Divine’s intervention

  • The viper’s kiss

  • Commercial break

  • The pork cylinder

  • Shear bad luck

  • An immense plug of wood

  • Scalpel, suture and Swedish turnips

  • Occupational hazard

  • Frightened to death

  • Jumping over a broomstick

  • Degloved by a donkey

  • The stomach snail

  • Fourteen fingers

  • A likely story

  • Point-blank range

  • “Oh, I’ll tell you another time”

  • A disarming experience

  • An unusual method

  • The greatest phenomenon that nature has known

  • Born under a manger

  • A practical joke

  • The wandering needle

  • Get Out Of Jail Free

4 thoughts on “The complete works”

  1. Larry Drown

    Thank you for publishing this excellent and fascinating blog.

    Many of us, myself included, often long for the “good old days”. Here are many examples of certain unpleasant shortcomings of medical practice in those times.

    Reply
  3. Jessica Miller

    Thank you so much for the time you have put into making this type of infomation readable and easy to access.

    “Back in the day” they sure did not have the luxuries we now have: pain killers, ICU and the knowledge etc.

    As a person who has experienced accidents equal to several you have mentioned (horse related, some things do not change), I am especially grateful for our modern advances.

    Thank you for all you do. The website was great fun while healing. Keep up the good works.

    Reply
  4. Jessica Miller

    I am hoping all is going well in your neighborhood. I was wondering if it is possible that you have ever come across some situations in your researches, similar as to what we are dealing with now but smaller, that had been documented and hopefully on a positive note, “contained”?

    Reply

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