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A mysterious epidemic of dental explosions...
* A teenage boy who got his wick stuck in a candlestick.
* A remarkable woman who, like a human fountain, spurted urine from virtually every orifice.
These are just a few of the anecdotal gems that have until now lain undiscovered in medical…
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1 author picked The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I laughed so hard at this book. It's a collection of reports from eighteenth and nineteenth-century medical journals in which doctors shared their most interesting and unusual cases.
I learned about the sailor who alleviated his companion's boredom at sea by swallowing knives and later passing them--until one got stuck. About the use of a chicken to cure a child's fever, because of course. About how cigar smoke could rescue someone from drowning (guess where the good doctor was supposed to blow it?). And the physician who thought he could train his infant son to be amphibious by immersing him…
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