Mould's Medical Anecdotes: Omnibus Edition

ISBN-13: 9781138429819 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

R. F. Mould

Opis

Based on the author's search in newspapers, advertisements, case histories, monologues, and medical journals on both sides of the Atlantic, this collection of anecdotes on the humorous, intriguing, unusual, mysterious, and historical aspects of medicine combines his successful medical anecdotes and includes a selection of collected material.

Recenzje

"… You do not need to have this edition on your office desk but inside the drawer, within easy reach. It will be of great value and you will love it! … you may sit in your armchair for hours, smiling, laughing, and learning unusual things with astonishment. … You should buy the book, order another one as a gift for your friend(s) … you will get a lot of information, entertainment, and pleasure."
-O. Pohlenz, European Radiology, Vol. 7, Issue 7, 1997

Praise for the previous edition:
"A delightful collection of medical quips, quirks, and quackeries."
-Daily Express

"…a mine of fun, charm, and poignancy."
-RAD Magazine

"There is something to interest everyone here."
-Clinical Biochemist

"Excellent-don't pinch your colleague's; buy your own!"
-HPA Bulletin

Spis treści

A selection of ancedotes: King's Evil. A Royal Malady. Royal Baths. The King is Dead. Queen Anne's Oculist. Optician's Advertisement. Ivan the Terrible's Skeleton. Napoleon III's Bladder Stone. One of the Favourite Jokes of Suicidal Patients. A King as Dentist. Dentistry, 1523. The Guinea Jaw. Oliver Cromwell's Head. Head Shrinking. Why are the Heads of Men Hairy? Holes in Their Heads. The Esau Lady. Traffic in Human Hair. The Brothers Tocci. Ear Surgery. The Safety Tomb. Irish Export Trade in Dead Bodies. Skeletons for Sale. Kuda Bax and the Indian Fire Walk. Letter on Corpulence. Spinach as a Source of Iron. The Human Dustbin. Self-Induced Excess Iron Therapy. Foreign Bodies. Curing Piles with Petrol. Early Medical X-Rays. Tavern of the Dead. The Sufferer. Medical Diploma. Marriage and X-Rays. Real and Fake Diamonds. The Madman's Will. Gas Bulb Surrounded by Profanity. Who Made the Hospital Kettle Radioactive? Early Medical Radium. Sir William Gull. Tutankhamun's Head. The Yin and the Yang. Circumcision, 2340 BC. Birth of Twins, 2340 BC. Medical Handwriting. Lead Poisoning in the Ancient World. Inheritance Pattern of Death. Life and Death of Mok the Gorilla. Internal Combustion. Surgical Instruments, 2340 Bc. Surgical Instruments, AD 1739. Siberian Shaman. Why the Pill's Success Rate is Low in Asia. American Indian Medicine Man. Mapuche Medicine Women. Plus more...

O autorze

Dick Mould was a hospital physicist and cancerstatistician at the Royal Marsden and Westminster Hospitals in London for 30 years. He is now 'retired' from the British National Health Service and travels the world full time as a consultantgiving courses on basic medical statistics (mainly to radiation oncology residents) in countries including the USA, Germany, France, japan, Austria, Belgium and Switzerland. In addition, he acts as a consultant to the World Health Organizationon matters relating to the Chernobyl accident and also lectures on the history of x-rays, Marie Curie,and ChernobyJ. He has written some 80 scientific papersand has written or edited some 40 books.