How Isaac Newton Lost His Marbles And more medical mysteries, marvels: a nd mayhem

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HarperCollins Australia, Oct 1, 2010 - Science - 272 pages
After their successful book speculating on What Killed Jane Austen, Dr Jim Leavesley and Dr George Biro turn their attention to How Isaac Newton Lost His Marbles and more medical mysteries. the life and death of this hypochondriac scientist is just one of over 50 intriguing stories of famous patients, doctors, medical experiments, disasters and triumphs.● Why did Byron refuse dinner invitations?● Why did Laurence Olivier need steroids?● What troubled Don Bradman?● How can you be murdered with an umbrella?● Have you heard of the bizarre Stockholm Syndrome?● What is the story behind Vivien Leigh's mental state?● Why would you want a monkey gland injection?● What inspired Dicken's concern for crippled children?● Did a medical mistake cause World War I?these are just a few cases over which the authors cast a jaundiced eye and perform a clinical and historical checkup. this latest collection tells you more than you ever needed to know about many famous figures and medical marvels. It is bound to satisfy the most morbid curiosity.
 

Contents

CHAPTER
241
PREFACE
242
CHAPTER 1
252
EPIDEMICS AND DISEASES
253
TREATMENTS AND DISCOVERIES 129
255
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About the author (2010)

Jim Leavesley was born and educated in the northern England seaside holiday resort of Blackpool. He graduated from Liverpool in medicine in 1953 and emigrated to Western Australia in 1957. After 33 years in general practice he and his wife Margaret retired to the vine growing area of Margaret River in the south west of the State. Here he rekindled an earlier love for history, especially the medical history of famous people, and took up the much more chancy occupation of writing about the subject. During the previous 10 years he had written a fortnightly column for the medical newspaper, Australian Doctor, but now he enlarged his horizon.Between 1978 and 1986 and while still in active practice, he did a weekly medical talk back programme on West Australian local radio. From 1986 to date he has presented a weekly medical history segment on the radio and has been an irregular guest speaker on the Science Programmes of ABC National Radio. Out of these presentations have been published 5 books. In 1998 he teamed up with Dr George Biro and together they have written 3 books on medical history; What Killed Jane Austen, How Isaac Newton Lost His Marbles and Flies in the Ointment.In 1993 he was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for 'services to medicine in general and medical history in particular'.

Bibliographic information

TitleHow Isaac Newton Lost His Marbles And more medical mysteries, marvels: a nd mayhem
AuthorsJim Leavesley, George Biro
PublisherHarperCollins Australia, 2010
ISBN0730492419, 9780730492412
Length272 pages
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