The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine Quotes

“The human capacity for mischief, misadventure and downright idiocy is apparently a trait that progress cannot eradicate.”
― Thomas Morris, The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth: And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine

“Dutch fumigation was believed to be so valuable a technique that tubes and bellows for blowing tobacco smoke “into the fundament” were installed in public places such as coffee shops and barbershops—just as defibrillators are today.”
― Thomas Morris, The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth: And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine

“bulky salts, nauseous decoctions, etc., with as much wonderment and surprise as we now look back upon the preceding therapeutic means of our ancestors.”
― Thomas Morris, The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth: And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine

“За последние столетия медицина изменилась до неузнаваемости, но некоторые вещи остаются постоянными. Склонность человека к проделкам и откровенно идиотским поступкам — это черта, которую прогресс не в силах искоренить.”
― Thomas Morris, The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine