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[...]
This text exaimines the medical, historical and folklore literature on the subject of being buried alive and explores why fears of premature burial arose and whether they were warranted.[...]
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 London monster
Dogs have a cherished role as close companions, and their sometimes startling abilities have been a never-ending source of fascination for their observers and friends through the ages. In Amazing Dogs, Jan Bondeson uncovers the stories of some of the most extraordinary dogs in history. In the 1750s,[...]
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[...]
Jan Bondeson has made an amazing discovery. The earliest English-language work of fiction to be entirely based on the mystery of Jack the Ripper is published here for the first time. Guy Logan had been active as a London journalist during the latter part of the hunt for the Whitechapel murderer, whi[...]
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[...]