The Girl Who Gave Birth to Rabbits: A True Medical Mystery

ISBN-13: 9781573927949 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 232 str.

Clifford A. Pickover

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Mary Toft was a young woman with a peculiar passion and an ordinary life that was forever changed when she gave birth to something nonhuman. This incredible story can justifiably be called history's most fascinating medical mystery, a dark, true-life Alice in Wonderland tale with a streak of horror. With numerous illustrations, this is an engrossing and thoroughly unique introduction to eighteenth-century science and its metaphor for today's scientific superstitions and politics.