Historian Thomas Morris gathers together some of the weirdest medical stories from history in his new book The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth. If you want to read about teeth shooting out of someone’s head, a woman who urinated through her nose, or a kid who swallowed a goose larynx and ended up honking, this is the book for you. The stories are amusing, but sometimes painful. For example, surgery was not always a procedure you were unconscious for. There was even a surgeon who cut off his assistant’s fingers trying to go for a speed record during a surgery and ended up with 300% death rate.
The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth is highly enjoyable, while also being a touch disturbing. Look for it today from Dutton Publishing.
