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The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities From the History of Medicine (Paperback)
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The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities From the History of Medicine (Paperback)
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"Delightfully horrifying."--Popular Science
One of Mental Floss's Best Books of 2018
One of Science Friday's Best Science Books of 2018
· A mysterious epidemic of dental explosions…
· A teenage boy who got his wick stuck in a candlestick...
· A remarkable woman who, like a human fountain, spurted urine from
virtually every orifice...
These are just a few of the anecdotal gems that have until now lain
undiscovered in medical journals for centuries. This fascinating
collection of historical curiosities explores some of the strangest
cases that have perplexed doctors across the world.
From seventeenth-century Holland to Tsarist Russia, from rural Canada
to a whaler in the Pacific, many are monuments to human stupidity –
such as the sailor who swallowed dozens of penknives to amuse his
shipmates, or the chemistry student who in 1850 arrived at a hospital
in New York with his penis trapped inside a bottle, having unwisely
decided to relieve himself into a vessel containing highly reactive
potassium. Others demonstrate exceptional surgical ingenuity long
before the advent of anaesthesia – such as a daring nineteenth-century
operation to remove a metal fragment from beneath a conscious patient’s
heart. We also hear of the weird, often hilarious remedies employed by
physicians of yore – from crow’s vomit to port-wine enemas – the
hazards of such everyday objects as cucumbers and false teeth, and
miraculous recovery from apparently terminal injuries.
Blending fascinating history with lacerating wit, The Mystery of the
Exploding Teeth will take you on a tour of some of the funniest,
strangest and most wince-inducing corners of medical history.
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