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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bondeson, Jan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Medicine > Miscellanea.
Medicine > Anecdotes.
Medicine & Medical Issues.
West European History.
Médecine > Miscellanées.
MEDICAL / History.
Medicine.
Trivia and miscellanea.
Anecdotes.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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