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    A cabinet of medical curiosities / Jan Bondeson.
    by Bondeson, Jan.
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    New York : W.W. Norton, 1999, c1997.
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  • Medicine -- Anecdotes.
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    0393318923 (pbk.) :
    9780393318920 (pbk.) :
    Description: 
    ix, 250 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
    Contents: 
    Spontaneous human combustion -- The bosom serpent -- The riddle of the lousy disease -- Giants in the earth -- Apparent death and premature burial -- Mary Toft, the rabbit breeder -- Maternal impressions -- Tailed people -- Three remarkable specimens in the Hunterian Museum -- The strange story of Julia Pastrana.
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    Discusses several strange diseases, remarkable malformations, uncommon and gruesome ways of death, and unlikely feats of fasting or gluttony, which proliferated in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries' medical literature, and shows that sometimes these curiosities did occur.
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