Great Medical Mysteries is a hilarious catalogue of medical mysteries and trivia - medical mysteries of history, mysterious addictions and everyday medical mysteries are all posed and pondered with Richard Gordon's famed wit. The result is a deeply humorous, often bawdy, novel that explores the fancies and bodily functions of human beings through the ages. It moves ingeniously from the woman who gave birth to rabbits, to George Washington's teeth and Hitler's eyesight via cannibalism and arrives at more contemporary enigmas - such as why do so many doctors write books?

Great medical mysteries

Literature & Fiction

Richard Gordon

Humor & Satire

Hutchinson

Great Medical Disasters

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Arrow Bks.

Bedside Manners: A Patient's Guide to Doctors and Hospitals

Doctor in the House

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Doctor on the Job

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Doctor in the House (Simple English)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Longman

Medical Witness

Signet

The history of medicine is largely the substitution of ignorance by fallacies, argues Richard Gordon, author of "Doctor in the House", in this sceptical canter through the wastelands of medical history. Victorian physicians were brilliant at identifying all the diseases they had no idea how to cure. And when in 1826, in Paris, Laennec was confronted by a girl with such an enormous chest that he impulsively rolled up a handy piece of paper in order to listen from a seemly distance, he had unwittingly invented the stethoscope. The book visits, in their sickness, patients as difficult and diverse as Queen Victoria (who belched uncontrollably), Hitler (who had his rear passage inspected five times a day), and early safe-sex practitioner James Boswell (who wore condoms made out of ovine gut, secured by ribbons in regimental colours).

The Alarming History of Medicine

Medical Books

Mandarin

Mrs Samantha Dougal is against it. Nudity that is. In a Soho strip-club, the Dean of St Swithan's Hospital feigns indifference. Mrs Dougal's husband, however, is totally in favour - and has just moved in with the Dean, who just happens to be his brother-in-law. The jokes positively spill from this elegantly written and languorously witty tale that includes Sir Lancelot, the Queen, a totally impractical new building, and the voluptuous young daughter of the trendy hospital chaplain.

Doctor in the Nude (Camden)

Contemporary

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