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"The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth" by Thomas Morris is a captivating journey through the bizarre and often gruesome annals of medical history. This audiobook summary offers a glimpse into the evolution of modern medicine, revealing the trials, errors, and sheer oddities encountered by practitioners and patients alike. From astonishing cases of survival to the perplexing phenomenon of exploding teeth, Morris illuminates the mysteries of the human...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 The history of medicine is filled with patients who have turned up at the hospital with an embarrassing and entirely self-inflicted complaint. The human capacity for mischief, misadventure, and downright idiocy is apparently a trait that progress cannot eradicate.
#2 The old sense of the word tumor is not necessarily indicating abnormal tissue growth, but a...
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Dutton, An imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
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[2018]
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English
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"This wryly humorous collection of stories about bizarre medical treatments and cases offers a unique portrait of Victorian medicine in all its grisly weirdness. A puzzling series of dental explosions beginning in the nineteenth century, with the most recent case in the 1960s, is just one of many strange tales that have long lain undiscovered in the pages of old medical journals. Award-winning medical historian Thomas Morris has assembled the stories...
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