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Medicine's Strangest Cases - 9781906032906

Un libro in lingua di Michael O'Donnell edito da Trafalgar Square, 2010

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Examining the medical profession from the age of Hippocrates to the present day, Medicines Strangest Cases is a fascinating jaunt through medical history. It 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; and the future Lady Hamilton, who lectured on healthy living while pursuing a lucrative career as a West End prostitute.

We also meet nineteenth and twentieth century doctors who prescribed 'dangerous' practices - they condemned bicycling because it could stimulate the 'sexual system' of 'women of a certain temperament' and they protected young men from the dreaded disease of masturbation with an agonising treatment involving blisters and iodine. Michael O'Donnell dons his scrubs and conducts a full examination of the bizarre world in which doctors and their patients do their best to survive, resulting in this collection of true tales, ranging from the painful to the hilarious.

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