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Bezig met laden... The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth: And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicinedoor Thomas Morris
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Didn’t like this one as much as some of the other medical mysteries. Hard to be entertained when the patients were dying left and right and the tone was a bit light. Overall, though, an interesting read ( ) An entertaining collection of various medical oddities and reports generally from the 16th through 19th centuries. Many appear credible while others are fanciful, yet in general all make for an easy and interesting read. While there is some discussion of the assumed basis for the often erroneous conclusions, perhaps an opportunity was missed as more thorough analyses could have been informative and not merely entertaining. On the downside, there is no narrative flow to this work it is as it is little more than a random compilation. Readers looking for pop science in the style of Mary Roach will be disappointed in this one. Morris has cobbled together miscellaneous reports from medical journals and other publications over a roughly 200 year span from the mid 1600s to the mid 1800s. They range from ick-inducing to unlikely and mostly make the reader happy to not have to endure the "cures" of the era. He mostly lacks Roach's sassy humor, and after a while the parade of insults to the human body just begin to get bland, with an occasional side trip into TMI about self-mutilation. Feel free to pass this one up. The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine By: Thomas Morris Narrated by: Thomas Morris, Ruper Farley Wow, this book tells the strangest tales of horrible things that happened to people or people did to themselves, or just weird stories or bad luck! Stupidity or bad luck? Maybe a bit of both! I won't even try to give examples because I don't want my review to be censored! I love to read about bizarre medical history and culture. This covers more weird things doctors came across they had to treat. It does give examples of treatments but mostly it's about the problem and how it happened! Very interesting indeed! Good narration! geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"This wryly humorous collection of stories about bizarre medical treatments and cases offers a unique portrait of Victorian medicine in all its grisly weirdness. A puzzling series of dental explosions beginning in the nineteenth century, with the most recent case in the 1960s, is just one of many strange tales that have long lain undiscovered in the pages of old medical journals. Award-winning medical historian Thomas Morris has assembled the stories thematically so readers will witness Mysterious Illnesses (such as the Rhode Island woman who peed through her nose), Horrifying Operations (1635: A hungover Dutchman swallows a knife, which is then surgically removed from his stomach), Dubious Treatments ("Take twelve young swallows out of the nest . . ."), Unfortunate Predicaments (such as that of the boy who honked like a goose after inhaling a bird's larynx), and many other marvels. Read together, these entertaining stories amount to far more than a series of anecdotes. They are worth reading for their entertainment value alone, but they also tell us a great deal about the evolution of modern medicine. Some show the medical profession hopeless in the face of ailments which today would be quickly banished by modern drugs; but others are heartening tales of recovery against the odds, patients saved from death by the devotion or ingenuity of a conscientious doctor. As a collection they allow the reader to learn about the evolution of medical expertise and to understand the rationale behind therapeutic regimes that would otherwise seem inexplicable today.However embarrassing the ailment or ludicrous the treatment, every case tells us something about the knowledge (and ignorance) of an earlier age, along with the sheer resilience of human life"--Provided by publisher. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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