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This book is well on its way to get 5 stars from me. It's informative, funny and at times downright freaky but it really has me hooked.

This book is well on its way to get 5 stars from me. It's informative, funny and at times downright freaky but it really has me hooked.

Ik vind het nu al een fantastisch boek. Het is fascinerend om te lezen hoe mensen op bizarre manieren ziek of gewond raken of dingen in hun lichaam hebben gestopt, en ook heel bijzonder hoe artsen in de jaren 1700-1900 deze patiënten behandeld hebben. De medische zorg was toen al verrassend ver in mijn ogen, alhoewel anesthesie toen nog niet bestond.

ergot rot
luminous patients
the human pincushion
potassium,urea and the bottle
"He coughed up part of his own spine"

ergot rot
luminous patients
the human pincushion
potassium,urea and the bottle
"He coughed up part of his own spine"

ergot rot
luminous patients
the human pincushion
potassium,urea and the bottle

ergot rot
luminous patients
the human pincushion
potassium,urea and the bottle

ergot rot
luminous patients
the human pincushion
potassium,urea and the bottle

Amazing..

Curious cases till now means people inputting foreign stuff to their system through either mouth or anus.

I was hoping this would be full of really bizarre cases, but so far it’s been a lot of stories about stuffed in people’s butts. Which, as someone in the medical profession, is pretty par for the course.

Percivall Pott was a surgeon best known for realizing that chimney sweeps were particularly prone to scrotal carcinoma - the first occupational cancer ever identified.

US Patent exists for “Apparatus for facilitating the birth of a child by centrifugal force.”

I just keep yelling WTF! 🤯

FUN BOOK.

Inching through this one. It's not something that one can read quickly.

no one:

18th century doctor: bleeding out a pint of your blood will cure everything

my boy really just said stays and jackets make women disfigured, crook-backed, injure the breast, bowels and they nipples that they babies can't suckle, make delivery difficult, and give women cancer


huhu

trynna tell me a man coughed up his C1 vertebra and

'twas all good after, ok

me: a worker, just going about my day in the mills

me: slipknot of a rope im holding gets caught into mills cogs.
gets thrust in til a beam slams body from getting sucked into cogs

me: jolly, i almost got bone-juiced mad. hot damn, lucky to keep my body one piece in



me: wait, whose arm is that

what is it with people and swallowing knives

glad to know people were just as dumb back then as they are today.

but where did the *four hundred needles come from*

take a shot everytime someone inserts something into their fundament

An important moment in my book is when doctors came up with anesthetics because then they could perform advanced surgeries and before they couldn’t do anything for a patient if the problem was internal.

The setting of my book is mostly in the 1900s to 1700s. It doesn’t have a permanent place that it takes place in because it takes place in many different places from the point of view of many different people. The operations and diagnostics usually take place in a hospital or in the patients home.

Doctors were up to some strange shit.

A very entertaining audiobook!

My book has a character vs nature conflict. I think this because the characters always have a medical problem with them which is natural. The characters have to overcome the problem with the help of a doctor.

This book is disturbing and horrifying. But fascinating and enlightening. Like if the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile collided with a fire truck.