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A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bondeson, Jan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Spontaneous Human Combustion
  • The Bosom Serpent
  • The Riddle of the Lousy Disease
  • Giants in the Earth
  • Apparent Death and Premature Burial
  • Mary Toft, the Rabbit Breeder
  • Maternal Impressions
  • Tailed People
  • Three Remarkable Specimens in the Hunterian Museum
  • The Strange Story of Julia Pastrana
  • Note on Sources