Mon premier blog

The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth: And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine by Thomas Morris

• The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth: And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine
• Thomas Morris
• Page: 368
• Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
• ISBN: 9781524743703
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

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

Download textbooks for free torrents The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth: And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine

Overview

"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 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.

Pdf downloads: Livres en ligne download pdf gratuit Thérèse Desqueyroux pdf, Mobi kostenlos herunterladen ebooks Die Vergangenheit holt uns ein download link, Téléchargez des livres gratuits en ligne pour iphone La papeterie Tsubaki par Ito Ogawa 9782809725339 site, Ebook télécharger l'allemand Mammouth & Piston Intégrale download link, Manuels d'anglais téléchargeables gratuitement Les secrets de la cuisine à IG bas - 100 recettes salées pour la silhouette et la santé (Litterature Francaise) DJVU ePub FB2 9782360982431 par Marie Chioca site, Descargar libros pdf INSTALACIONES ELECTRICAS EN BAJA TENSION: DISEÑO, CALCULO, DIRECC ION, SEGURIDAD Y MONTAJE FB2 ePub DJVU pdf,