Thomas Morris

My latest book, Blood on the Thames, is now available for preorder!

In my last post I wrote about an impressive operation performed in 1888 by the American surgeon George Ryerson Fowler, […] The post A tale of two inventions first appeared on Thomas Morris.

At the age of 14, George Ryerson Fowler ran away from his parents’ home in Jamaica and stowed away on […] The post A shot in the dark first appeared on Thomas Morris.

Henry Fryer was a surgeon from the market town of Stamford in Lincolnshire.

One of the most famous of all medical marvels is the case of Phineas Gage, the American railroad worker who […] The post So much chaff called brains first appeared on Thomas Morris.

Things have been quiet here for the last couple of months.

This spectacular case was published in the Medical Press and Circular, a leading Irish journal, in 1866.

In 1803 a surgeon from Dumbarton in Scotland, Alexander Hunter, wrote to the London Medical and Physical Journal to report […] The post The cabbage catastrophe first appeared on Thomas Morris.

Pretty much any substance you care to mention has, at one time or another, been touted as a cure for […] The post The carrot cataplasm first appeared on Thomas Morris.

A few months ago I wrote about the criminal who was lucky to recover after inhaling a fake gold earring. […] The post The perils of a sneeze first appeared on Thomas Morris.