The medicine cabinet of curiosities : an unconventional compendium of health facts and oddities from asthmatic mice to plants that can kill / Nicholas Bakalar.

  • Bakalar, Nick.
Date:
[2009], ©2009
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

New York : Times Books, [2009], ©2009.

Physical description

ix, 225 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 21 cm

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Contents

By the numbers -- Butterflies in the stomach -- X, Y, and sex -- Bedside manner -- Lab rat -- Bio hazard! -- The perfect cure -- Prevention is the best medicine -- Invention is the best medicine -- Scared to death -- Grey matter.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    BA /BAK
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780805088540
  • 0805088547