A collection of essays discussing historical medical oddities like spontaneous combustion and tailed people, offering a likely cause for the condition, and mentioning some real human oddities[...]

Did the son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette die during his imprisonment in the Temple Tower, or was he one of the people claiming to be the Lost Dauphin after the Terror ended? And was Kasper Hauser, the mysterious boy who claimed to have spent his entire childhood in a subterranean dungeon, reall[...]

The Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, a major figure in world politics and an ardent opponent of apartheid, was shot dead on the streets of Stockholm in February 1986. At the time of his death, Palme was deeply involved in Middle East diplomacy and was working under UN auspices to end the Iran Iraq[...]

After her coronation in 1838, Queen Victoria was a frightened young woman. She was relentlessly pursued by a weird teenager, Edward, 'the Boy' Jones, who had an uncanny ability to sneak into Buckingham Palace without being detected. Once, he broke into her bedroom and stole her underwear, and at lea[...]

En god introduktion til klinikken og en praktisk oversigt over ortopædkirurgiske lidelser.

Bogens første del er inddelt i regioner, og først beskrives akutte skader efterfulgt af overbelastnings- og slitageskader samt eventuelle arvelige deformiteter. I sidste del omtales generel[...]