Medicine's strangest cases

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Medicine's strangest cases

Michael O'Donnell

Robson, 2002

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Bibliography: p. 315-316

"Extraordinary but true incidents from over five centuries of medical history"--Cover

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内容説明

This hugely enjoyable jaunt through medical history unearths some odd characters, including: The Essex man who kept getting pregnant; The physician who gave syphilis its name by writing a poem about it; The future Lady Hamilton training to be a courtesan by giving lectures on healthy living; We also meet nineteenth and twentieth century moralising doctors whose instinctive response to people having fun was to look for the dangers - they condemned bicycling because it could stimulate the 'sexual system' of 'women of a certain temperament'; they protected young men from the dread disease of masturbation by blistering their penises with iodine. With this collection of true tales, some sad, some anger-provoking, some hilarious, Michael O'Donnell offers an inside view of the bizarre yet often endearing world in which doctors and their patients try their best to survive.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA72194846
  • ISBN
    • 1861055633
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    London
  • ページ数/冊数
    xi, 316 p
  • 大きさ
    22 cm
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