Sunday, May 25, 2008

Medical oddities


MEDICAL CURIOSITIES
By Robert Young son
Here are the therapies involving bacon rashers, toads and other items, bizarre ailments as such fishy odor syndrome and colonic crunch, remarkable feats of the human body including clearing a blockage with a snake, improvised operations, quack cures, bleeding and purging, and other amazing medical ideas. The stranger cases in the medical profession, including fraudsters, fantasists, body snatchers, and those suffering from ‘intellectual deficit’ find their rightful place in this miscellany of medical oddities, horrors and humors.

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