A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities write by Jan Bondeson. This book was released on 2019-01-24. A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Long ago, curiosities were arranged in cabinets for display: a dried mermaid might be next to a giant's shinbone, the skeletons of conjoined twins beside an Egyptian mummy. In ten essays, Jan Bondeson brings a physician's diagnostic skills to various unexpected, gruesome, and extraordinary aspects of the history of medicine: spontaneous human combustion, colonies of snakes and frogs living in a person's stomach, kings and emperors devoured by lice, vicious tribes of tailed men, and the Two-Headed Boy of Bengal. Bondeson tells the story of Mary Toft, who gained notoriety in 1726 when she allegedly gave birth to seventeen rabbits. King George I, the Prince of Wales, and the court physicians attributed these monstrous births to a "maternal impression" because Mary had longed for a meal of rabbit while pregnant. Bondeson explains that the fallacy of maternal impressions, conspicuous in the novels of Goethe, Sir Walter Scott, and Charles Dickens, has ancient roots in Chinese and Babylonian manuscripts. Bondeson also presents the tragic case of Julia Pastrana, a Mexican Indian woman with thick hair growing over her body and a massive overgrowth of the gums that gave her a simian or ape-like appearance. Called the Ape Woman, she was exhibited all over the world. After her death in 1860, Julia's husband, who had also been her impresario, had her body mummified and continued to exhibit it throughout Europe. Bondeson tracked the mummy down and managed to diagnose Julia Pastrana's condition as the result of a rare genetic syndrome.
A Cabinet of Ancient Medical Curiosities
A Cabinet of Ancient Medical Curiosities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Cabinet of Ancient Medical Curiosities write by J. C. McKeown. This book was released on 2017. A Cabinet of Ancient Medical Curiosities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A light-hearted portrait of the origins of modern medicine in the ancient world
The Cabinet of Curiosities
The Cabinet of Curiosities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cabinet of Curiosities write by Douglas Preston. This book was released on 2002-07-01. The Cabinet of Curiosities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In one of NPR's 100 Best Thrillers Ever, FBI agent Pendergast discovers thirty-six murdered bodies in a New York City charnel house . . . and now, more than a century later, a killer strikes again. In an ancient tunnel underneath New York City a charnel house is discovered. Inside are thirty-six bodies--all murdered and mutilated more than a century ago. While FBI agent Pendergast investigates the old crimes, identical killings start to terrorize the city. The nightmare has begun. Again.
Amazing Dogs
Amazing Dogs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Amazing Dogs write by Jan Bondeson. This book was released on 2011-03-15. Amazing Dogs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Amazing Dogs tells the stories of some of the most extraordinary dogs in history.
The Medicine Cabinet of Curiosities
The Medicine Cabinet of Curiosities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Medicine Cabinet of Curiosities write by Nicholas Bakalar. This book was released on 2009-07-21. The Medicine Cabinet of Curiosities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Delightful doses of medical miscellany about wacky doctors and their curious patients, from their smallest bones (the stapes) to their heaviest organs (the liver) In this addictive collection of trivia, Nicholas Bakalar, the "Vital Signs" columnist for The New York Times, spoons out the things you never realized you really want to know about your body and your health. Bakalar shares the wonders of medicine, from medical firsts (in 1667, the first survivor of a blood transfusion received sheep's blood) to medical onlys (rabies is the only infectious disease that is 100 percent curable when treated and 100 percent fatal if not). He takes a tour of diseases that belong in horror movies: liquefying organs, flesh-eating bacteria, mushrooms sprouting in the throat. He notes remarkable remedies, such as dark chocolate, which can stand in for blood-pressure pills. And he dissects the chemistry of the human body (including the 0.0000000000000015259 percent that is radium). With a specialist's attention to the funny bone as well as the gray matter, Bakalar's The Medicine Cabinet of Curiosities tickles the curiosity of both the healthy and the hypochondriac, following Voltaire's dictum that "the art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."
