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Medicine's Strangest Cases Michael O'Donnell

Medicine's Strangest Cases By Michael O'Donnell

Medicine's Strangest Cases by Michael O'Donnell


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Medicine's Strangest Cases is a choice prescription of medical oddities, featuring an Essex man who kept getting pregnant; the physician who gave syphilis its name by writing a poem about it; and the future Lady Hamilton's training as a courtesan through giving lectures on healthy living.

Medicine's Strangest Cases Summary

Medicine's Strangest Cases: Extraordinary but True Tales from over five centuries of Medical History by Michael O'Donnell

Medicine's Strangest Cases is a choice prescription of medical oddities, featuring an Essex man who kept getting pregnant; the physician who gave syphilis its name by writing a poem about it; and the future Lady Hamilton's training as a courtesan through giving lectures on healthy living. We also meet nineteenth and twentieth century doctors whose response to people having fun was to warn of danger - they condemned bicycling because it could stimulate the 'sexual system' of 'women of a certain temperament'; and protected young men from the dread disease of masturbation by blistering their penises with iodine (ouch!). Laugh out loud and wince in sympathy with this rundown of the most bizarre medical cases in history.

About Michael O'Donnell

Michael O'Donnell practised medicine for twelve years before becoming a writer. He was editor of World Medicine, has published two novels, and written and presented over one hundred TV documentaries in Europe and the US. At Radio Four he was chairman of 'My Word', presenter of the award-winning series 'Relative Values' and a regular contributor to the programme 'Stop The Week'.

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GOR001660544
9781906032906
1906032904
Medicine's Strangest Cases: Extraordinary but True Tales from over five centuries of Medical History by Michael O'Donnell
Used - Very Good
Paperback
HarperCollins Publishers
20091102
316
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