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Shelfari edited the description of A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities Saturday, August 1 2009.

In this book of amazing oddities, Jan Bondeson explores unexpected, gruesome, and bizarre aspects of the history of medicine. He regales us with stories of spontaneous human combustion; vicious tribes of tailed men; the Two-Headed Boy of Bengal; Mary Toft, who allegedly gave birth to seventeen rabbits; and Julia Pastrana, exhibited around the world as the Ape Woman. Bondeson combines an historian's skill in showing us our timeless fascination with the grotesque with a physician's diagnostic abilities, as he examines the evidence and provides likely explanations for these peculiar events.

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Shelfari edited the first sentence of A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities Thursday, July 16 2009.

IN 1635 THE BOARD OF THE UNIVERSITY OF Copenhagen was called in to give judgment on a difficult forensic question.

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