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A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities: A Compendium of the Odd, the Bizarre, and the Unexpected

Author Jan Bondeson

Format Paperback

Publisher W. W. Norton & Company

Category Medical - Reference

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In this book of amazing oddities, Jan Bondeson explores unexpected, gruesome, and bizarre aspects of the history of medicine. He regales us with stories of spontaneous human combustion; vicious tribes of tailed men; the Two-Headed Boy of Bengal; Mary Toft, who allegedly gave birth to seventeen rabbits; and Julia Pastrana, exhibited around the world as the Ape Woman. Bondeson combines an historian's skill in showing us our timeless fascination with the grotesque with a physician's diagnostic abilities, as he examines the evidence and provides likely explanations for these peculiar events.

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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780393318920

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