CONTENTS
A fork up the anus ✴ Swallowing knives is bad for you ✴ The golden padlock ✴ The boy who got his wick stuck in a candlestick ✴ Shot by a toasting fork ✴ Mr. Dendy’s eggcup case ✴ Broken glass and boiled cabbage ✴ Honking like a goose ✴ Penis in a bottle ✴ The colonic carpentry kit ✴ Suffocated by a fish
A hideous thing happened in High Holborn ✴ The incredible sleeping woman ✴ The dreadful mortification ✴ The human pincushion ✴ The man who fought a duel in his sleep ✴ The mystery of the exploding teeth ✴ The woman who peed through her nose ✴ The boy who vomited his own twin ✴ The case of the luminous patients ✴ The missing pen
Death of an earl ✴ The tobacco-smoke enema ✴ Saliva and crow’s vomit ✴ The pigeon’s-rump cure ✴ Mercury cigarettes ✴ The tapeworm trap ✴ The port-wine enema ✴ The snake-dung salesman
The case of the drunken Dutchman’s guts ✴ If you can’t find a surgeon . . . ✴ The self-inflicted lithotripsy ✴ A high pain threshold ✴ A window in his chest ✴ The sad case of Hoo Loo ✴ All at sea ✴ An extraordinary surgical operation
The wandering musket ball ✴ The miller’s tale ✴ In one side and out the other ✴ A bayonet through the head ✴ An interesting and remarkable accident ✴ The lucky Prussian ✴ A case for Dr. Coffin ✴ The healing power of nature ✴ Severed, replaced, reunited ✴ Give that man a medal ✴ A bit of a headache
Sleeping with the fishes ✴ Death of a 152-year-old ✴ The combustible countess ✴ He sliced his penis in two ✴ Half man, half snake ✴ The human waxwork ✴ The slugs and the porcupine ✴ The amphibious infant ✴ The seventy-year-old mother-to-be
A surfeit of cucumbers ✴ The perils of being a writer ✴ Why children should never wear hats ✴ Killed by his false teeth ✴ Pegged out ✴ The cast-iron stove panic ✴ Brolly painful ✴ A flaming nuisance ✴ Cycling will give you heart disease