The complete works

 

 

  • Death by barley

  • An X-ray vision

  • A chainsaw to the spine

  • Spirits go straight to your head

  • Broken glass and boiled cabbage

  • The eye fungus

  • The man who peed a bullet

  • Cart to heart

  • Hip hip

  • 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 punctured bowel

  • The tooth ant

  • Bled dry

  • Quails and beer

  • Better late than never

  • The man with a snake in his heart

  • Firearm fires forearm

  • Up the spout

  • Evacuated with a spoon

  • She cut off her nose with a carving knife

  • 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

  • A high pain threshold

  • Killed by his false teeth

  • The venomous boot

  • Bunged up

  • Reeking from the jaw of the living animal

  • Pregnant with a toothbrush

  • The exploding scrotum

  • A window in his chest

  • Mother knows best

  • Attempted suicide by spoon

  • A most fortunate escape

  • The soldier operated on himself

  • 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 sad case of Hoo Loo

  • The sleepwalker

  • A saw head

  • Rattlesnakes and brandy

  • A fork up the anus

  • Like an elastic ball

  • The man with the wax face

  • A diplomatic disaster

  • The amputee obstacle course

  • Bolt from the blue

  • Amputating the bowels

  • Occupation: glass and nail eater

  • A case for Dr Bell

  • Death from peas

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

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Scroll to Top