Doctors Killed George Washington

by Erin Barrett, Jack Mingo, David Colbert

It's no joke that we are all fascinated by the medical profession and the people in it. With Doctors Killed George Washington , trivia mavens Erin Barrett and Jack Mingo explore accidental medical discoveries, medical follies, bizarre cures, and more. This titillating tome puts doctors and medical history under the microscope and exposes more than 500 little-known facts and outrageous oddities from the wild world of medicine. Did you know? Before the advent of surgery, ancient Egyptian doctors put their patients under by hitting them on the head with a mallet.

Genres: Ebooks, History, Nonfiction, Medical, Trivia

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 31, 2002

About the author

Erin Barrett grew up in South East Asia and traveled extensively through her childhood years, instilling a lasting and deep curiosity about almost everything. This is reflected in the diversity of topics she has written about in her numerous book titles, dozens of articles, and her long-running nationally syndicated column, Random Kinds of Factness, which appeared in newspapers around the country for over seven years.

Her innate curiosity has produced a rather eclectic CV. Barrett is an editor, a certified Life Coach, an urban sustainability expert, a beekeeper and beer maker, a writing coach, a painter, photographer, singer, and fine wine specialist, with over a decade of work within the wine industry. She currently resides in Northern California with her partner and their 5 year old feline, Eleanor Rigby Soupstock.

Reviews

[Ming Terk · Rating 4 out of 5]

Snippets of medical trivia. Most informative, some humorous. Though one wishes that some topics can be dealt with more detail. An enjoyable read all the same.

[Rhianna Schoonover · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you ever get the hankering for silly medical trivia this is the book for you. Maybe you want some little known facts for a dinner party? Then this book will give it to you in spades. Perhaps you'd like to see how medicine has changed, or not changed as the case may be, across the millennia. Nothing that will be earth shattering, but definitely a fun read of sometimes silly, sometimes dangerous, but always entertaining facts from the history of medical treatment.