A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is the one to read if you want to know more about spontaneous combustion, snakes living as parasites in the human stomach, two-headed people, tailed men, giants and dwarfs, and Julia Pastrana the Nondescript. The chapter on premature burial is particularly ghoulish and gruesome, and seems to have inspired a very good TV documentary on this subject, recently sent on the Discovery Channel. The author is obviously a medical scientist, but he has the rare talent of writing in a way that appeals to the general reader. Stylish, well written and with lots of amazing illustrations, this book is well worth its price.

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Victorian Grotesque: An illustrated excursion into medical curiosities, freaks, and abnormalities, principally of the Victorian age Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is a compilation of medical abnormalities in the Victorian era. It illustrates conditions from the minor - an extra digit, to the extreme - parasitic conjoined twins (an example of which was born in South America recently; the separation was successful but the baby died due to complications).
Oddly, Joseph (John) Merrick - the Elephant Man, who died in 1890, is not mentioned in the book. However, the Tocci conjoined twins, born in Italy in 1877, are.
It is interesting to note that these conditions still exist today, although most are detected before birth and terminated.
This is a fascinating book, heavily illustrated with photographs and contemporary line drawings, lovingly researched by the author. I have had my copy for over 25 years and have read it over a dozen times.
If you have an interest in the medical side of these abnormalities or if you have the morbid interest of the Victorian public to these poor and, sadly, often exploited human beings or if, hopefully, your interest is one of compassion and understanding, then I urge you to read this extraordinary book.

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Cruise Ship Crime: A Medical Murder Mystery Review

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(More customer reviews)Cruise Ship Crime, A Medical Murder Mystery is not your ordinary mystery. The story is sometimes funny, sometimes touching, but the story of Dr. Alan Mayhew is always interesting. Dr. Mayhew is a recently widowed retired cruise ship doctor. His children decide to give him a gift - a cruise - only this time as a passenger.
The mystery revolves around the death of a ship employee, Michael. Michael's friends and lovers, and a mysterious roll of film often bring up more questions than answers. The doctor and friends try to put the pieces of the puzzle together.Most of the story however is the eye-opening romantic frolicking that goes on behind the scenes of a cruise ship.
The author, Dr. Paul Davis, is writing from experience as he was a ship doctor for 10 years. Reading the book was like sitting at a table with the ship's doctor and doing some "people watching". Young and old, male and female, romance is in the air on this cruise ship. My favorite story is one I had actually heard before - only in joke form. That's OK because it still fooled me until the end and I still laughed just as much.

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Dr. Alan Mayhew is a retired cruise ship doctor who's about to go on-a cruise! He's grieving the loss of his wife, and his family feels a cruise is just what he needs to move on-to take his mind off of missing her. Once on board, he meets some of the eclectic folks that make up the passengers and the crew including Tiffany, the beautiful cruise ship director. With her, Dr. Mayhew helps solve a series of on board crimes, including a murder. Dr. Davis's medical sleuthing takes us behind the scenes of the exciting life of a cruise ship doctor and gives us insider knowledge of the fast paced, colourful and romantic world of officers, crew, and passengers.
"A compulsive page turner with all the poignancy of CSI"
John Smithson - Canadian Literature Reviews

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