Get Out Of Jail Free
Irritating the genitals by various means
She swallowed a mouse
An extraordinary quantity of worms
Revealed: the cure for hiccups
The trumpeter and the walking stick
The dislocated neck
Cosmetic(s) surgery
Asleep while she gave birth
The poison taker
Rare and peculiar
William Harvey at the Royal College of Physicians
Mr Trought’s tobacco enema
Plagiarising the past
An enormous concretion
The spermatorrhoea alarm
Hooked
Making a mark
Show and tell
The lithophagus
Born in a cesspit
A week entombed in a snowdrift
A dangerous weapon
The bladder shrimp
The eye magnet
The pea pod polyp
The lucky Prussian
In hospital for 34 years
All at sea
A dangerous hobby
The pigeon’s rump cure
An enormous eater
The very hungry schoolboy
Mr Dendy’s egg-cup case
The most eccentric physician who ever lived
The man with two penises
An interesting and remarkable accident
Cured by a collision
Media vita in morte sumus
Twice bitten
Cones and bones
Normal for Norfolk
Falling pregnant
An arrow escape
The forgetful sailor
He sliced his penis in two
Not getting his hands dirty
A span in length
An unfortunate couple
An unwelcome visitor
Going for a dance
A forgotten thing
The colonic carpentry kit
The healing power of nature
Death of an earl
The slugs and the porcupine
The 43-year pregnancy
The other Horatio Nelson
The cheese knife lobotomy
The seventy-year-old mother-to-be
A receipt for making a rupture
The man whose intestines twinkled like stars
The lawn-tennis elbow
A flaming nuisance
A dubious paper
Hook, line and Liston
The amphibious infant
The champagne cure
The monk with a perfume bottle stuck up his bottom
Robot hearts
The lancer lanced
A strange tale
An abominable, disgusting habit
The long road to recovery
Publication day!
Pins and needles
The golden padlock
An abnormal secretion
The boy who got his wick stuck in a candlestick
A freak accident
Painful news from the Bobbin Factory
An unwanted buzz cut
The egested intestine
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.
Thank you! Glad you’re enjoying it.
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.
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”?