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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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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 31 in 2016

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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.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

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.

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  1. inostia · 2016-10-24Recommends
    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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  2. Submitted In hospital for 34 years as a story · 75 points

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  3. Submitted The king of smokers as a story · 64 points

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  4. Submitted A man who fought a duel in his sleep as a story · 41 points

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  5. Submitted The Lemonade Enema as a story · 23 points

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  6. Submitted The man with two penises as a story · 16 points

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  7. Submitted The woman who peed through her nose as a story · 9 points

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  8. Submitted Swallowing knives is bad for you as a story · 5 points

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  9. Submitted Death by Onanism as a story · 4 points

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  10. Submitted The spermatorrhoea alarm as a story · 4 points

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  11. Submitted The boy who vomited his own twin as a story · 4 points

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  12. Submitted Can trees grow inside humans? as a story · 4 points

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  13. Submitted Masturbation and heart disease as a story · 4 points

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  14. Submitted Caution: “larking in the servants' hall” led to a knitting needle in the brain as a story · 3 points

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  15. Submitted The first successful reattachment of a severed body part as a story · 3 points

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  16. Submitted The pork cylinder as a story · 3 points

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  17. Submitted The soldier who operated on himself as a story · 3 points

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  18. Submitted The fireproof man as a story · 3 points

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  19. Submitted Insects in the stomach as a story · 3 points

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  20. Submitted Show HN: A searchable archive of 500 historical medical curiosities as a story · 2 points

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  21. Submitted The Golden Pin as a story · 2 points

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  22. Submitted Making concrete in the gut as a story · 2 points

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  23. Submitted The time a pea germinated inside a kid's nasal passages as a story · 2 points

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  24. Submitted The doctor who coughed up part of his own spine as a story · 2 points

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  25. Submitted The 18th-century man who sliced his best friend in two as a story · 2 points

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  26. Submitted The man whose intestines twinkled like stars as a story · 2 points

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  27. Submitted Worms in the nose as a story · 2 points

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  28. Submitted The self-opening coffin as a story · 2 points

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  29. Submitted Up the spout as a story · 2 points

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  30. Submitted The girl whose sweat turned black as a story · 2 points

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