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Writer of books about history, surgery, the weird and wonderful. Latest book THE DUBLIN RAILWAY MURDER out now in paperback, pub. Vintage.
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(Incidentally, both Sauvages and Linnaeus appear to have been acting on a suggestion of the great English physician Thomas Sydenham, who wrote that...

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This is Angelo Mosso's sphygmomanometer, an early device for measuring blood pressure. The patient inserted their fingers into the tubes (marked 'E') which were filled with water - both diastolic and systolic pressures (and a pulse wave) were recorded on the black cylinder.

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One day he discovered that a monkey had eaten the strings from his lute. History does not record whether the monkey had been playing the lute before doing so.

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And the final ghost in my selection is a bony hand saying NO TO TRICK OR TREATERS.

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Ghost no. 1. Stare at this image while counting to twenty. Then transfer your gaze to the ceiling, to a blank wall or a piece of paper. What do you see?
SPOOKY.

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A man coughs up a tobacco pipe - more than two years after his friend accidentally stabbed him in the eye with it - a jaw-dropping case from 1770: https://t.co/forkwtA4Dk

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A Philadelphia doctor's unusual case: a lion-tamer admitted to his hospital after a tangle with a big cat in 1872: https://t.co/8ADz5nGWkZ

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There are cases in which patients were said to have died of fright at the prospect of a bladder-stone operation.

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