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From the Dissection Room: Cicatrix from Leg Amputation

February 3, 2011

The healing stump-end of an amputated leg, c. 1760-93. The new tissue (cicatrix) is nearly formed here, but the muscles surrounding the amputation sore have contracted

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In the Valley of the Shadow of Death: Plague and Sacrifice in Eyam Village

January 7, 2011

  Mompesson’s Well (1665). The story of Eyam is not related to the history of surgery per se, but it is related to the history

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The Chirurgeon’s Box: The Falciform Amputation Knife

January 1, 2011

Many keen observers have noted the curved knife pictured at the top of this website and have enquired about this oddly shaped tool. This, dear

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‘One night with Venus, a lifetime with Mercury’: Syphilis and ‘Syphilophobes’ in Early Modern England

December 22, 2010

Skeleton (c. 18th century) showing signs of advance syphilis. Before the discovery of penicillin in 1928, syphilis was an incurable disease. Its symptoms were as

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‘Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears!’ A [Very] Brief History of the Caesarean Section

November 26, 2010

One of the earliest engravings depicting a cesarean section from Seutonis’s The Lives of the Twelve Caesars (1506). It has long been believed that the

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The Horrors of War: Gunshot Wounds and the 17th-Century Chirurgeon

November 3, 2010

Skull [19th century] showing ‘keyhole’ gunshot trauma from The National Museum of Health and Medicine, Washington D.C.   FROM RICHARD WISEMAN’S TREATISE OF WOUNDS [1672] At

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