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# The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth: And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine

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			        		Praise for&#xA0;The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth&quot;A Ripley-esque collection of &#x2018;compellingly disgusting, hilarious, or downright bizarre&#x2019; medical oddities... accompanied by the author&apos;s witty and often humorous, colloquial commentary.&quot;&#xA0;-&#x2013;Kirkus Reviews&#x201C;In The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities From the History of Medicine,&#xA0;Thomas Morris takes a delightful romp through a myriad of entertaining, arcane and obscure medical anecdotes plucked from 18th- and 19th-century newspapers, journals and textbooks... Using a panoply of colorful examples, the author artfully illustrates the frustrations, uncertainty, poorly founded confidence and frequent futility of medical practice in the prescientific age.&#x201D;--Wall Street Journal&quot;The vast amount of material from diverse sources will amuse readers and leave them shaking their heads&#x2026; [an] informative, fascinating look at the history of medicine.&quot;&#xA0;--Library Journal&quot;A&#xA0;wonderfully gruesome tour of inexplicable illnesses, questionable remedies, jaw-dropping operations and recoveries that defy logic...&#xA0;a fascinating window into the world of medical oddities...&#xA0;This tour of strange and unbelievable medical cases from history is funny and terrifying in equal measure.&quot;&#xA0;--Shelf Awareness&quot;Delightfully horrifying...Do yourself a favor and&#xA0;preorder it&#xA0;so that you can gross everyone out at Thanksgiving.&quot;--Popular Science&#x201C;A particularly fascinating reminder of medical advancement&#x2026; Morris has combed through old medical journals and compiled a trove of the most bizarre, disgusting &#x2014; and compelling &#x2014; cases from the early 17th to the turn of the 20th century. It&#x2019;s like medical rubbernecking.&#x201D;&#xA0;--New York Post&#x201C;The clinical cases Morris has collected, creating what amounts to a medical version of Ripley&apos;s Believe It or Not!, are often intriguing, occasionally disgusting, sometimes tragic, but always weird&#x2026; Morris offers a most peculiar jaunt through medical history.&#x201D;&#xA0;--Booklist&#x201C;A gruesome but weirdly compelling trip through several centuries of quack cures, horrific operations, and bizarre accidents.&#x201D;&#xA0;--New York Daily News&#x201C;Morris pokes fun in a respectful manner that isn&#x2019;t mean-spirited&#x2026; Even better, these accounts go beyond the usual leeches-and-mercury tales; instead, most of what Morris presents hasn&#x2019;t had a good exam in decades. Despite their age &#x2013; and many are 200-plus years old &#x2013; these articles seem fresh&#x2026; if boredom is what ails you, The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth is an excellent remedy.&#x201D;--Terri Schlichenmeyer, The Bookworm Sez&quot;[A]&#xA0;series of case studies from our research past that will remind you that we are never as smart as we think. Morris uses images of old documents, and citations from physicians of the past, in way that makes the book both real, grounded&#x2014;and a lot of fun.&quot;--Science Friday, Best Science Books of 2018&quot;Replete with tales such as &#x201C;the human pincushion&#x201D; and &#xA0;&#x201C;suffocated by a fish,&#x201D; The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth is a bewildering walk through medical history that will astonish readers. This book proves that truth is indeed stranger&#x2014;and more stomach-churning&#x2014;than fiction. Between the toasting forks projectiles and deadly dentures, there are lessons a-plenty on how not to die.&quot; --Lydia Kang, MD, author of Quackery&quot;This delightfully bizarre compendium of medical mishaps will certainly tickle you&#x2014;what&#x2019;s not to love about exploding teeth?&#x2014;but something deeper is at work. Morris offers a wryly generous view of the fallibilities of the body and psyche (read: the sailor who wouldn&#x2019;t stop swallowing knives) and doctors&#x2019; inventive, often heroic attempts to remedy same, as medical science developed. At heart, this is an exploration of our humanity, in all its absurdity and valor.&#x201D; -&#x2013;Dawn Raffel, author of The Strange Case of Dr. Couney&quot;The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth is such a weirdly wonderful tour through the history of medicine - from wandering bullets to apparently evil cucumbers - that on one level it&apos;s just pure fun to read. But Thomas Morris&apos; intelligent story telling also makes it a fascinating look at medical history with all its mistakes, superstitions, and eventual understanding of the ever mysterious human body.&quot;--Deborah Blum, author of The Poison Squad
						    	
					    	
						
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			        		Thomas Morris is a writer and medical historian. His first book, The Matter of the Heart, a history of heart surgery, was a winner of a Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award. He lives in London.
						    	
					    	
						
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Like a Curiosity Museum
*by L***S on December 2, 2018*

We had one of those in my hometown, with all kinds of gross looking things that were part of human bodies.  It was fascinating to me as a child.  This book is similar.  The only problem with it is that there is really no cohesive narrative.  It's just brief descriptions of strangeness.  I was hoping for a little more somehow, but I still read the whole book.  I haven't taken away any stars either.  I think the author delivered on their promise and I just expected too much.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ It's pretty good. Nice conversational topics while drinking.
*by V***G on January 21, 2019*

When a caller on Science Friday mentioned the book, I immediately bought it, because I like this topic: medical oddity. I overall liked the book, though seems overly weighted with stories about strange outcomes of people swallowing stuff and sticking things in places it don't belong. Amusing causal read, but left me with the feeling that there must be better stories than this. The editor should have pushed back on the author for more quality and diversity of case types.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Unbelievable stuff
*by J***T on December 24, 2018*

I got this book as an interesting book for a doctors gift and ended up reading most of it myself

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