Falling from horses: medical controversy in early eighteenth-century England

• Published in: Medical history Vol. 64; no. 4; pp. 478 - 493
• Main Author: Pender, Stephen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.10.2020
• Subjects: 18th century; Abnormalities; Ammonia; Autopsies; Autopsy; Brochures; Cerebellum; Extravasation; Fatalities; Fractures; Horses; Illnesses; Knots; Medical personnel; Physicians; Physiology; Surgeons; United Kingdom > UK; England; Medicine; Medical controversy; Rhetoric; Pulse; Apoplexy

On Tuesday, 12 April 1726, Robert Worger fell from his horse at Barnham Down, Kent, hitting his head on the ground ‘with strong Force’. Unconscious, he was taken to Bridge, a nearby village, and laid out at the home of Sarah Knot, ‘Nurse and Landlady to the Patient’, bled several times, given ‘volat...