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Thomas Morris
Personal blog · thomas-morris.ukhistorywriting
Thomas Morris's personal blog at thomas-morris.uk covers history and writing. Since 2015, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 91 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-07, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Thomas Morris's blog of historical medical cases, drawn from reports in old medical journals. HN readers link it for its interesting stories, such as the woman who peed through her nose.
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Thomas Morris is the award-winning author of Blood on the Thames, The Dublin Railway Murder, The Matter of the Heart and The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth.
What Hacker News says?
Apropos. Thomas Morris' excellent blog about historical medical cases is super interesting, using reports from old medical journals as source. Eg "The woman who peed through her nose": http://www.thomas-morris.uk/
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on “Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?”Submitted In hospital for 34 years as a story · 75 points
HN discussionSubmitted The king of smokers as a story · 64 points
HN discussionSubmitted A man who fought a duel in his sleep as a story · 41 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Lemonade Enema as a story · 23 points
HN discussionSubmitted The man with two penises as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted The woman who peed through her nose as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Swallowing knives is bad for you as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Death by Onanism as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The spermatorrhoea alarm as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The boy who vomited his own twin as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Can trees grow inside humans? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Masturbation and heart disease as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Caution: “larking in the servants' hall” led to a knitting needle in the brain as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The first successful reattachment of a severed body part as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The pork cylinder as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The soldier who operated on himself as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The fireproof man as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Insects in the stomach as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: A searchable archive of 500 historical medical curiosities as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Golden Pin as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making concrete in the gut as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The time a pea germinated inside a kid's nasal passages as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The doctor who coughed up part of his own spine as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The 18th-century man who sliced his best friend in two as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The man whose intestines twinkled like stars as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Worms in the nose as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The self-opening coffin as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Up the spout as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The girl whose sweat turned black as a story · 2 points
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