Tag Archive for 'history'

Historical horror stories in medicine

As a doctor, the ward is full of potential dangers, risks and potential for cock-up. Avoiding pitfalls are a daily event for many junior doctors! But things were a lot worse many years ago. In the January edition of Casebook Sarah Whitehouse trawls through the medicolegal archives for some historical horror stories to see what [...]

What were medical students doing 100 years ago?

Medical Educator has been donated a copy of the 1910 (second edition) of the Students Handbook of Operative Surgery. The second edition comes complete with hand written medical student notes and diagrams of common surgical procedures from back in the day. The edition, written by William Ireland Wheeler was designed to help students understanding of [...]