The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth, And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine by Morris, Thomas -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Introduction 1. Unfortunate Predicaments

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

2. Mysterious Illnesses

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

3. Dubious Remedies

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

4. Horrifying Operations

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

5. Remarkable Recoveries

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

6. Tall Tales

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

7. Hidden Dangers

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

Sources Acknowledgments Index About the Author