ABSTRACT

Mould's Medical Anecdotes: Omnibus Edition is a fabulous collection of anecdotes on the humorous, intriguing, unusual, mysterious, and historical aspects of medicine. It combines the hugely successful Mould's Medical Anecdotes and More Mould's Medical Anecdotes and includes a selection of more recently collected material. Dr. Mould searched newspapers, advertisements, case histories, monologues, and medical journals on both sides of the Atlantic for this treasure trove.

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King’s Evil

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A Royal Malady

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The King is Dead

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Queen Anne’s Oculist

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A King as Dentist

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Oliver Cromwell’s Head

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Head Shrinking

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Holes in Their Heads

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The ‘Esau Lady’

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Traffic in Human Hair

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The Brothers Tocci

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Ear Surgery

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The Safety Tomb

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Letter on Corpulence

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Spinach as a Source of Iron

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The Human Dustbin

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Foreign Bodies

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Curing Piles with Petrol

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Early Medical X-Rays

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Tavern of the Dead

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The Sufferer

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Medical Diploma

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Marriage and X-Rays

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Real and Fake Diamonds

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Early Medical Radium

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Sir William Gull

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Tutankhamun’s Head

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The Yin and the Yang

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Medical Handwriting

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Inheritance Pattern of Death

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Internal Combustion

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Theory of Evolution

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The Skoptzy Sect

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Coles’s Patent Truss

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Tobacco Therapy

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Transmigrations of a Cow

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Medical Spooks

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Spark Coils and Spy Scares

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Shearer’s Delineator

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Munchausen’s Syndrome

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Is Hypnotic History a Hoax?

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Caterpillar Erythema

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Alligator Bite

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Heart Disease as an Accident

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The Genius of Claude Bernard

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Punk Rocker’s Lung

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The Wit of Oliver Gogarty

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Human Rocket

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As Big as a Piece of Wood

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The Hardier Sex

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Fildes’ ‘The Doctor’

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Medical Intelligence

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New Diseases in 1982

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Quack Medicines

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Mr Port & Mrs Green

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John St John Long

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Unicorn’s Horn

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Moscow Case History, 1983

A true story by R F Mould

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Andrew Lang on Statistics

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Do Storks Bring Babies?

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The Red Cross, 1870

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Murder by Digits

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Voltaire on Physicians

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Gorky Park and Gerasimov

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Descartes and the Mind

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A Plea for the Pigtail

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Spanish Proverb

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Fire Damage

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Anecdote on Dr Cunningham

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Hippocratic Hoax

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Pliny on Doctors

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Excuses, Excuses!

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God and the Doctor

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Confucius on Medicine

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An Opinion on Quacks, 1714

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Take a Wine-Moistened Topaz

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Oscar Wilde’s Dying Words

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Napoleon on Doctors

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Medical Ants

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An Experiment with Rats

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Saint Who’s?

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Somerset Maugham on Training

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A Yorkshire Water Doctor

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Eleven Blue Men

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Old Dog, New Tricks

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Rejects

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Setting Limbs

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French Proverb

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Malingering

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Milk Transfusion

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Cow Pearl Jam

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Gin Mania in London

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Irish Proverb

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Medicinal Uses of Wine

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The Oyster’s Consolation

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Biology Exam Howlers

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Anecdote of Nansen

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A Specialist

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Philosophy

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An Adult

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Derbes’s Law

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The Pigtail of Li-Fang-Fu

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Koko for the Hair

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Charms against Teething

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Rabbit Fights Back

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Suicide

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Anointing

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Leonardo’s Last Supper

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The Royal Wedding

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Medical English

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The Many Pains of Snoring

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A Student’s Criminals

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An Old- Time Apothecary

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An Italian Quack

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A Scene of Mesmeric Therapy

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Impromptu Speech

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The Dinner-plate Twins

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Persian Wisdom

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The Pestäule in Vienna

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Medical Papyri from Egypt

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Most-sought-after Plant

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Mr Chamberlen’s Secret

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Anatomical Rhyming Slang

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Capgras Syndrome

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Premature Burial

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Vaccination

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A Deaf Australian Magistrate

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Sir Anthony Oyster

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The Birth of Anaesthesia

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Plato on Hiccoughing

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The Cannon Effect

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Medicine in Ancient Egypt

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The First Whole-Body X-Ray

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Jail Fever in Newgate

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Diderot on Doctors

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John Hunter on Operations

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On Alcoholism

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Moscow Weddings

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The Frog

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Sales Opportunities!

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Bulgarian Proverb

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Irish Proverb

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Confusion

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Anecdote of William Beaumont

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Fook–Luk–Shou

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Autopsy on Lenin’s Brain

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Bizarre Claims for Radium

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Father Murphy’s Donkey

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Organization Charts

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Vietnamese Cobra Tonic

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Does Strategy Matter?

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A Mexican Worm

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Calf Fries in Texas

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Wine and Women

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Mice and a PhD Thesis

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Not the End?