Download PDF The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine 9781524743680 Medicine Health Science Books
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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
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 a plethora of other marvels.
Beyond a series of anecdotes, these painfully amusing stories reveal a great deal about the evolution of modern medicine. Some show the medical profession hopeless in the face of ailments that today would be quickly banished by modern drugs; but others are heartening tales of recovery against the odds, patients saved from death by the devotion or ingenuity of a conscientious doctor.
However embarrassing the ailment or ludicrous the treatment, every case in The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth tells us something about the knowledge (and ignorance) of an earlier age, along with the sheer resilience of human life.
Download PDF The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine 9781524743680 Medicine Health Science Books
"We had one of those in my hometown, with all kinds of gross looking things that were part of human bodies. It was fascinating to me as a child. This book is similar. The only problem with it is that there is really no cohesive narrative. It's just brief descriptions of strangeness. I was hoping for a little more somehow, but I still read the whole book. I haven't taken away any stars either. I think the author delivered on their promise and I just expected too much."
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The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine 9781524743680 Medicine Health Science Books Reviews :
The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine 9781524743680 Medicine Health Science Books Reviews
- We had one of those in my hometown, with all kinds of gross looking things that were part of human bodies. It was fascinating to me as a child. This book is similar. The only problem with it is that there is really no cohesive narrative. It's just brief descriptions of strangeness. I was hoping for a little more somehow, but I still read the whole book. I haven't taken away any stars either. I think the author delivered on their promise and I just expected too much.
- When a caller on Science Friday mentioned the book, I immediately bought it, because I like this topic medical oddity. I overall liked the book, though seems overly weighted with stories about strange outcomes of people swallowing stuff and sticking things in places it don't belong. Amusing causal read, but left me with the feeling that there must be better stories than this. The editor should have pushed back on the author for more quality and diversity of case types.
- Liked the interesting case histories chosen. A bit annoyed by author's snarkiness over 18th-19th century medical procedures (like bleeding) that are clearly deemed useless to us now, but were honest attempts to 'do no harm' in their time. (believe it or not, there is one reason to 'bleed' a patient--when kidney and other ailments lead to an excess of red cells that crowd out other blood factors)
- I got this book as an interesting book for a doctors gift and ended up reading most of it myself
- I like Thomas Morris blog that these stories come from. Lots of mysterious medical cases from way back when.
- I kind of enjoyed this book because I like medical history stuff. After a while it gets a bit old. Pretty fun to read what people believed and how "Doctors" dealt with some illnesses/issues.
- Have it to a doctor who enjoyed it
- THIS BOOK IS SO FUNNY AND GIVES YOU AN INSITE ON HOW MEDICAL PROCEDURES WHERE PERFORMED BACK WHEN , WELL WORTH IT. I WILL READ AND READ AGAIN
