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Laced with a delicate (and occasionally indelicate) humour, this book is for anyone with a taste for the bizarre, the exotic and the preposterous. It is also a rich source of fascinating scientific lore and medical therapies involving bacon rashers, toads and other odd items; bizarre ailments such as fishy odour syndrome, priapism and colonic crunch; remarkable feats of the human body, including clearing a blockage with a snake, brandy as a cure for rabies, imaginative forms of self-immolation and the mother-to-be who gave herself a Caesarean; operations ranging from catastrophic to successful-but-totally-improvised; nightmares from the past such as quack cures, bleeding and purging, and amazing medical ideas about sex; the weird and sometimes wildly misdiagnosed symptoms produced by illnesses both physical and psychological; and the stranger cases of the medical profession, including fraudsters, fantasists, body-snatchers and those suffering from 'intellectual deficit'.
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Medical Curiosities
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Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, London, 1997
ISBN 10: 1854879022
ISBN 13: 9781854879028
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A collection of bizarre medical stories ranging from the horrifying to the hilarious, taken from both the author's profession and from medical literature. Stories include therapies involving bacon rashers, toads and other strange items, the often extreme limitations of medical science, bizarre ailments such as Fishy Odour Syndrome, quack cures for rabies, and the weird and sometimes wildly misdiagnosed symptoms produced by illnesses both physical and psychological. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR004812876
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