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A Curious Case of a Petrified Leg
The Sloane Correspondence contains several examples of curious medical cases, many of which were intended for publication in the Philosophical Transactions (which Sloane as secretary of the Royal...
View ArticleA Horrifying Pregnancy and Cesarean Operation in Eighteenth-Century Ireland
A surgeon performing a Caesarean operation on an agonized woman who had apparently been carrying a dead baby in her womb for five years. Reproduction of a sixteenth-century woodcut, 1933. Credit:...
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