Amazing Medical Stories
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Book Overview
The twenty true tales in Amazing Medical Stories give a rich and entertaining picture of the ways in which medical workers (both real and fake) have used the keys to the mysterious kingdom of life: health, disease, and physical anomaly, birth, death, and post-mortem diagnosis. The stories run the gamut from tragedy to hilarity, from satisfaction of curiosity to evocation of terrible pity. Amazing Medical Stories deals with quacks and charlatans, the giants Angus McAskill and Anna Swan, the first case of antisocial personality disorder, as well as wonderous inventions and achievements by physicians.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0864923473
ISBN13:9780864923479
Release Date:April 2003
Publisher:Goose Lane Editions
Length:128 Pages
Weight:0.42 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 5.5" x 7.7"
Customer Reviews
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Titanic has a story in Here!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
Amazing Medical Stories with one from the Titanic! So it's highly recommended. You can check your local library for this but its doubtful they have it.
Amazing Medical Stories
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
This book is both informative and highly entertaining. Burden and Grant have distilled truly amazing stories of a medical ilk which pertain to and are of interest to both American and Canadian readers. I was fascinated by the pioneering medical research done by Alexander Graham Bell, especially his efforts to identify the location of the assassin's bullet in President Garfield, and Bell's breakthroughs in cancer and x-ray therapy. The new information on the Titanic and the weird coincidences which tie in the dead of the Titanic and the presence of her identical sister ship the Olympic with the Halifax explosion were downright spooky. The account of Dr. Brinkley's early "Viagra", the implantation of goats testicles in willing patients, really astounded me as to the extent people will go to rejuvenate sexual vitality.
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