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- catalog abstract "A wonderfully humorous - and decidedly unorthodox (!) history of medicine from Hippocrates to the present. Delightfully witty and richly informative, this new book by the author of the classic Doctor in the House is a collection of anecdotes describing how the historical breakthroughs in medicine were really made. Using hilarious stories, based on actual facts, Gordon shows that most monumental discoveries were originally accidents. The microscope, for instance, was. Accidentally invented when Antony van Leeuwenhoek, a seventeenth-century Dutch optician, got two lenses stuck in a tube; he became the first man to see his own spermatozoa. Doctors had traditionally placed their ears on a patient's chest to listen to the heartbeat; faced with an unusually buxom patient, Dr. Rene Laennec modestly insisted on using a rolled-up sheet of paper, thus creating the stethoscope. Modern surgery was invented by gunpowder; when bows and arrows were. Superseded by powder and shot in the fifteenth century, the human damage it wreaked caused major advances in surgical technique. And if the illnesses were bad, the treatments were frequently worse. Did you know that the following cures were once thought to be infallible: Warts. Touch each wart with a separate pebble, put pebbles in a bag, drop bag on way to church, finder will receive your warts ... Mumps. Put patient in a donkey's halter and lead him around the pigsty. Repeat three times ... Whooping cough. Drink water from the skull of a bishop, if available ... and Hernias. At one time, castration was thought to be a cure for male hernias. A must for hypochondriacs, doctors, medical students, and anyone fascinated by the world of medicine, The Alarming History of Medicine is clever, revealing - and all true. It includes sixteen pages of cartoons, photographs, and drawings.".
- catalog contributor b6053597.
- catalog created "1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1993.".
- catalog description "A wonderfully humorous - and decidedly unorthodox (!) history of medicine from Hippocrates to the present. Delightfully witty and richly informative, this new book by the author of the classic Doctor in the House is a collection of anecdotes describing how the historical breakthroughs in medicine were really made. Using hilarious stories, based on actual facts, Gordon shows that most monumental discoveries were originally accidents. The microscope, for instance, was.".
- catalog description "Accidentally invented when Antony van Leeuwenhoek, a seventeenth-century Dutch optician, got two lenses stuck in a tube; he became the first man to see his own spermatozoa. Doctors had traditionally placed their ears on a patient's chest to listen to the heartbeat; faced with an unusually buxom patient, Dr. Rene Laennec modestly insisted on using a rolled-up sheet of paper, thus creating the stethoscope. Modern surgery was invented by gunpowder; when bows and arrows were.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 250-256).".
- catalog description "Repeat three times ... Whooping cough. Drink water from the skull of a bishop, if available ... and Hernias. At one time, castration was thought to be a cure for male hernias. A must for hypochondriacs, doctors, medical students, and anyone fascinated by the world of medicine, The Alarming History of Medicine is clever, revealing - and all true. It includes sixteen pages of cartoons, photographs, and drawings.".
- catalog description "Superseded by powder and shot in the fifteenth century, the human damage it wreaked caused major advances in surgical technique. And if the illnesses were bad, the treatments were frequently worse. Did you know that the following cures were once thought to be infallible: Warts. Touch each wart with a separate pebble, put pebbles in a bag, drop bag on way to church, finder will receive your warts ... Mumps. Put patient in a donkey's halter and lead him around the pigsty.".
- catalog extent "xi, 256 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0312104111 :".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : St. Martin's Press,".
- catalog subject "1993 A-976".
- catalog subject "610 20".
- catalog subject "History of Medicine Anecdotes.".
- catalog subject "Medicine Anecdotes.".
- catalog subject "R705 .G648 1994".
- catalog subject "Therapeutics Anecdotes.".
- catalog subject "WZ 40 G664a 1994".
- catalog title "The alarming history of medicine / Richard Gordon.".
- catalog type "Anecdotes. fast".
- catalog type "text".