MYSTERY OF THE EXPLODING TEETH (PB)

Blending fascinating history with anecdotal gems, this is a tour of the funniest, strangest and most wince-inducing corners of medical history. Here you’ll find the sailor who swallowed dozens of penknives to amuse his shipmates, the remarkable woman who spurted urine from virtually every orifice, a daring nineteenth-century operation to remove a metal fragment from beneath a conscious patient’s heart, and weird remedies employed by physicians of yore, like crow’s vomit and port-wine enemas.