Medicines Strangest Cases (Strangest Series)

This hugely enjoyable jaunt through medical history 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; The future Lady Hamilton training to be a courtesan by giving lectures on healthy living; We also meet nineteenth and twentieth century moralising doctors whose instinctive response to people having fun was to look for the dangers - they condemned bicycling because it could stimulate the 'sexual system' of 'women of a certain temperament'; they protected young men from the dread disease of masturbation by blistering their penises with iodine. With this collection of true tales, some sad, some anger-provoking, some hilarious, Michael O'Donnell offers an inside view of the bizarre yet often endearing world in which doctors and their patients try their best to survive.

Title - Medicines Strangest Cases (Strangest Series)

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ISBN 13 - 9781861055637

Imprint - Robson Books Ltd

Publisher - HarperCollins Publishers

Date Published - 04/10/2002

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Binding Type - Paperback

Dimensions - 136 x 216 x mm

Weight - 406 g

Languages - English