Mystery of the Exploding Teeth: And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine

✍ Scribed by Morris, Thomas

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1 MB
• Category: Fiction
• City: Penguin Publishing Group, 2018.
• ISBN-13: 9781881366362

✦ Synopsis

****"Delightfully horrifying."—**Popular Science

This wryly humorous collection of stories about bizarre medical treatments and cases offers a unique portrait of a bygone era in all its jaw-dropping weirdness.**
A puzzling series of dental explosions beginning in the nineteenth century is just one of many strange tales that have long lain undiscovered in the pages of old medical journals. Award-winning medical historian Thomas Morris delivers one of the most remarkable, cringe-inducing collections of stories ever assembled. Witness Mysterious Illnesses (such as the Rhode Island woman who peed through her nose), Horrifying Operations (1781: A French soldier in India operates on his own bladder stone), Tall Tales (like the "amphibious infant" of Chicago, a baby that could apparently swim underwater for half an hour), Unfortunate Predicaments (such as that of the boy who honked like a goose after inhaling a bird's larynx), and...
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✦ Subjects

MEDICAL -- General