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A cabinet of medical curiosities
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- Summary
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Brings a physician's diagnostic skills to various unexpected, gruesome, and extraordinary aspects of the history of medicine.
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- Creator
- Jan Bondeson
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 1997
- Physical Details
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- ix, 250 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 0801434319, 9780801434310
- OCLC
- ocm36977211
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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
Subjects
- Medicine -- Miscellanea.
- Medicine -- Anecdotes.
- Medicine.
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