Pitched upon a pitchfork
Death by barley
An X-ray vision
Spirits go straight to your head
Broken glass and boiled cabbage
The man who peed a bullet
Cart to heart
A fishy business
The stone-swallower
The bone-breaking sneeze
The dentist who made the blind see
The snuff-eating nose centipede
Deafened by a kiss
A leech on the eyeball
The mystery of the poisonous neckerchief
Sleeping with the fishes
The tapeworm trap
The tin whistle
The turpentine vapour bath
The dislocated eyeball
The self-opening coffin
The tooth ant
Bled dry
Quails and beer
The man with a snake in his heart
Firearm fires forearm
Up the spout
Evacuated with a spoon
The ear maggots
The girl whose sweat turned black
A nineteenth-century hacking scandal
The spider’s web cure
The forty-foot tapeworm
A festive night in a Victorian emergency department
Pegged out
Shot by a toasting fork
A bayonet through the head
Killed by his false teeth
The venomous boot
Reeking from the jaw of the living animal
Pregnant with a toothbrush
The exploding scrotum
Mother knows best
A most fortunate escape
The spear and the eucalyptus tree
Rings on his fingers
An unexpected discovery
A most remarkable accident
A leech in the throat
Incorrigible
A hopeless case?
The perils of being a writer
Cured by a nightmare
A pin in the ear
Sheathed in a pig’s gut
The missing pencil
The woman who peed through her nose
Toast and herbs
In one side and out the other
Severed, replaced, reunited
The woman who vomited pins
Snake poo salesman
She needs a finger
Flies in his eyes
The King of Smokers
The poet’s skull and a boy’s bowels
On flatulence and Darwin
The man with 87 children
The fractured penis
The cure of Thomas Tipple
Reattached with a sticking plaster
The missing tobacco pipe
The extra jaw
Conceived by a bullet
The mysterious bullet in the heart
Brolly painful
The sleepwalker
A saw head
Rattlesnakes and brandy
A fork up the anus
The man with the wax face
A diplomatic disaster
The amputee obstacle course
Bolt from the blue
Occupation: glass and nail eater
A case for Dr Bell
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”?