Mould's Medical Anecdotes: Omnibus Edition

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CRC Press, 01.01.1996 - 510 Seiten
Mould's Medical Anecdotes: Omnibus Edition is a fabulous collection of anecdotes on the humorous, intriguing, unusual, mysterious, and historical aspects of medicine. It combines the hugely successful Mould's Medical Anecdotes and More Mould's Medical Anecdotes and includes a selection of more recently collected material. Dr. Mould searched newspapers, advertisements, case histories, monologues, and medical journals on both sides of the Atlantic for this treasure trove.

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Kings Evil
1
Dentistry 1523
14
Ear Surgery
27
Tavern of the Dead
44
Medical Diploma
48
The Yin and the Yang
61
Surgical Instruments 2340
74
Coles Patent Truss
88
The Blind Physician
123
Unicorns Horn
130
Andrew Lang on Statistics
146
Gorky Park and Gerasimov
155
Descartes and the Mind
170
Martin Luther on Medicine Mathematics and Theology
177
Hippocratic Hoax
183
Physicians Fees in St Louis 1829
189

Saint Cosmos and Saint Damian
96
Caterpillar Erythema
103
Punk Rockers Lung
110
Quacks at TienSing China
116
Toothache in the Third Century AD?
195
Caesarian Section by the Patient Herself
204
Cure for a Babylonian Hangover
214
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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

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