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Filled with blood and gore and lots of statistics, this small volume contains medical facts from ancient times to the present in the tiny bites promised by the title of the series. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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It's no joke that we are all fascinated by the medical profession and the people in it. With Doctors Killed George Washington, trivia mavens Erin Barrett and Jack Mingo explore accidental medical discoveries, medical follies, bizarre cures, and more. This titillating tome puts doctors and medical history under the microscope and exposes more than 500 little-known facts and outrageous oddities from the wild world of medicine. Did you know? Before the advent of surgery, ancient Egyptian doctors put their patients under by hitting them on the head with a mallet.
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