Expanded Edition includes pandemics, plagues, and global panics.
Contents:
Part I: The Contagious. Quarantine ;The Deadly Parade ; Detox ; The Black Plague ; Pliny the Elder ; The Man Who Drank Poop ; Parrot Fever -- Part II: The Unnerving. The Resurrection Men ; Opium ; An Electrifying Experience ; Weight Loss ; Charcoal ; Erectile Dysfunction ; Spontaneous Combustion ; Trepanation ; The Doctor Is In -- Part III: The Gross. Mummy Medicine ; Mercury ; The Guthole Bromance ; A Piece of Your Mind ; The Unkillable Phineas Gage ; Phrenology ; Robert Liston ; Urine Luck! ; Radium ; Humorism ; The Straight Poop ; The Doctor Is In -- Part IV: The Weird. The Dancing Plague ; Curtis Howe Springer ; Smoke 'Em if you Got 'Em ; A Titanic Case of Nausea ; Arsenic ; Paracelsus ; Honey ; Self-Experimentation ; Homeopathy ; The Doctor Is In -- Part V: The Awesome. The Poison Squad ; Bloodletting ; Death by Chocolate ; John Harvey Kellogg ; Vinegar ; Polio Vaccine ; The Doctor Is In.
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