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- W2023372955 abstract "Rarely have essays of such diverse character and origin been assembled between covers. The book opens with a<i>New Yorker</i>article by Samuel Hopkins Adams on the black widow spider. (Her consort, we are told, seldom has the luck to become a black widower, owing to the female's shrewish habit of eating him shortly after mating... putting him to the double purpose of bed and board.) This is followed by a 16th century physician's classical description of sweating sickness, admirably rendered into modern English by the editor. There is reprinted a 1962Journalcommunication on glue-sniffing, after which René and Jean Dubos discuss romantic 19th century views of tuberculosis (Is it possible that genius is only scrofula? asks Elizabeth Barrett Browning). And so the book proceeds: indisputable classics (Snow on cholera, Beaumont on digestion, Withering on foxglove) interspersed with engrossing but probably less enduring works (Montagu on yawning, Lindner on" @default.
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- W2023372955 title "Curiosities of Medicine: An Assembly of Medical Diversions 1552-1962" @default.
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