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A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities

A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities
Author: Jan Bondeson
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0801434319

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. Download A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. In ten essays, Jan Bondeson brings a physician's diagnostic skills to various unexpected, gruesome, and extraordinary aspects of the history of medicine: spontaneous human combustion, colonies of snakes and frogs living in a person's stomach, kings and emperors devoured by lice, vicious tribes of tailed men, and the Two-Headed Boy of Bengal. Bondeson tells the story of Mary Toft, who gained notoriety in 1726 when she allegedly gave birth to seventeen rabbits. King George I, the Prince of Wales, and the court physicians attributed these monstrous births to a "maternal im Search and find a lot of medical books in many category availabe for free download. A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities medical books pdf for free. In ten essays, Jan Bondeson brings a physician's diagnostic skills to various unexpected, gruesome, and extraordinary aspects of the history of medicine: spontaneous human combustion, colonies of snakes and frogs living in a person's stomach, kings and emperors devoured by lice, vicious tribes of tailed men, and the Two-Headed Boy of Bengal King George I, the Prince of Wales, and the court physicians attributed these monstrous births to a "maternal im



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