Title: Curiosities of medicine : an assembly of medical diversions, 1552-1962.
Authors: Roueché, Berton, 1911-1994; Banov, Leon, 1914-2007; Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection
Publisher: Little, Brown,
Year: 1963
Subjects: Medicine; History of Medicine; Medicine
Contents: Notes on an unpleasant female / Samuel Hopkins Adams -- The beginning, name, nature, and signs of the sweating sickness / John Caius -- Glue-sniffing in children / Helen H. Glaser and Oliver N. Massengale -- Consumption and the romantic age / René and Jean Dubos -- The Broad Street pump / John Snow -- Immanuel Kant / Philip Marshall Dale -- Stomach cancer in Iceland / Niels Dungal -- Two outbreaks of typhoid fever / William Budd -- A stricken man and his heart / Robert Wallace -- Experiments and observations on digestion / William Beaumont -- The case of the perilous prune pit / Samuel Zelman -- Solitaire / Robert Lindner -- An account of the Foxglove / William Withering -- Observations made during the epidemic of measles on the Faroe Islands in the year 1846 / Peter Ludwig Panum -- A case of the dancing mania / Kinder Wood -- The milk sickness -- A short account of the malignant fever lately prevalent in Philadelphia / Mathew Carey -- Journey round my skull / Frigyes Karinthy -- Epidemic myalgia / William Norman Pickles -- On yawning / Ashley Montagu -- Impression : essentially normal / Berton Roueché.