Death from peas
The double monster
The horn of a dilemma
Killed by a corkscrew
Two spoonsful of brain on the pillow
The deserter
The largest tumor on record
Honking like a goose
Sugar is good for your teeth
The wandering musket ball
How to treat hay fever?
The fire-proof man
Boiling water and birch twigs
A rotten trick
Plum stone colick
Mass delusions
Champagne ad libitum
Eye eye
Dancing testicles
The incredible shrinking man
Worms in the nose
The miller’s tale
Replete of vermin
Scared to death?
The redoubtable Mrs H
Inexpressibly loathsome and sickening
The man who coughed up a knife
The glow-in-the-dark Easter feast
The human piggy bank
A suicidal machine
Death by cucumber
The man with three testicles
The stomach eel
Jaundice and night blindness
Cured by a lightning bolt
‘Powder a Toad’ – Wesley’s Primitive Physick
Lost and found
An intestinal… mouse?
The boy who vomited his own twin
The man with a tooth in his ear
Leeches for everybody
Oshkosh, by gosh
The mystery of the exploding teeth
The man who ate chalk
Trees do not grow in humans
Killed by shaving
The electric spectacles
Medicinal pancakes
Penis in a bottle
A ludicrous mistake
More astonishing than true
The woman whose skin turned blue
Benjamin Rush in The Lancet
Dragging his bowels after him
A medical duel
Fruit, feathers and hair
Suffocated by a fish
A dismal tail
A medical old wives’ tale
The woman who turned to soap
Killed by a cough
Dead or alive at will
The seven-foot tumour
Unfortunate injury of the decade
Don’t mess with an electric eel
Impaled on a stake
Dead from too much pie
Sober up the nineteenth-century way
A Victorian hospital Christmas
The hidden dangers of a Victorian Christmas
The perils of the Christmas pudding
Death by Christmas dinner
A beetle in the bladder
There was an old woman who swallowed a fork…
Somewhat silly in his manner
All hail the strawberry
The case of the missing pen
The perforated private
Is that it?
Nothing to worry about
Struck dumb
In praise of temperance
Pipe dreams
The owl-eyed girl
Medicine or marinade?
Trouble at t’mill
The worst job in the world?
Saliva and crow’s vomit
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”?