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Dead ends! : flukes, flops & failures that sparked medical marvels

Dead ends! : flukes, flops & failures that sparked medical marvels

Book 2025

Beheadings! Bloodletting! Bodysnatching! Journey down a snaking road bristling with medicine's most astonishing "dead ends." Marvel at the diagnoses, experiments, and treatments that were frequently useless, and often harmful, but that sometimes led doctors to discoveries that changed the world for the better. Enjoy a whirlwind tour of the human body -- from brain, to heart, to limbs -- during which New York Times bestselling author Lindsey Fitzh...