The complete works

 

 

  • Irritating the genitals by various means

  • Finish what you started

  • Extraordinary and probably unique

  • A curious surgical case

  • She swallowed a mouse

  • An extraordinary quantity of worms

  • Revealed: the cure for hiccups

  • More than common danger

  • 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

  • The ear drill

  • 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 harrowing incident

  • A week entombed in a snowdrift

  • A dangerous weapon

  • The bladder shrimp

  • The eye magnet

  • The pea pod polyp

  • The foot-long bladder stone

  • 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

  • The accidental hysterectomy

  • 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

  • Fifty years ahead of his time

  • Not getting his hands dirty

  • A span in length

  • An unfortunate couple

  • An unwelcome visitor

  • Going for a dance

  • The boy who choked on his gold

  • 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 case of the drunken Dutchman’s guts

  • If you can’t find a surgeon…

  • 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

  • The ‘first’ heart transplant

  • An abominable, disgusting habit

  • The long road to recovery

  • Publication day!

  • Pins and needles

  • The golden padlock

  • The human clarinet

  • An extraordinary surgical operation

  • Like finding a needle in a pharynx

  • An abnormal secretion

  • The boy who got his wick stuck in a candlestick

  • A freak accident

  • Painful news from the Bobbin Factory

  • A large portion of chin

  • An unwanted buzz cut

  • The egested intestine

  • Pitched upon a pitchfork

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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