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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

George Milbrey Gould and Walter Lytle Pyle

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Medicine keeps careful records of the rare and the remarkable, and Gould gathered them into one astonishing volume. His compendium catalogs unusual cases across the human body, from genetic and developmental variations to extraordinary feats of endurance. A famous reference of the strange and the exceptional, treated throughout with a clinician's seriousness. Explore the outer edges of what the body can do.

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  1. 1ANOMALIES and CURIOSITIES of MEDICINE
  2. 2GEORGE M. GOULD, A.M., M.D. and WALTER L. PYLE, A.M., M.D.
  3. 3PREFATORY AND INTRODUCTORY.
  4. 4TABLE OF CONTENTS.
  5. 5ANOMALIES AND CURIOSITIES OF MEDICINE.
  6. 6CHAPTER I. GENETIC ANOMALIES.
  7. 7CHAPTER II. PRENATAL ANOMALIES.
  8. 8CHAPTER III. OBSTETRIC ANOMALIES.
  9. 9CHAPTER IV. PROLIFICITY.
  10. 10CHAPTER V. MAJOR TERATA.
  11. 11CHAPTER VI. MINOR TERATA.
  12. 12CHAPTER VII. ANOMALIES OF STATURE, SIZE, AND DEVELOPMENT.
  13. 13CHAPTER VIII. LONGEVITY.
  14. 14CHAPTER IX. PHYSIOLOGIC AND FUNCTIONAL ANOMALIES.
  15. 15CHAPTER X. SURGICAL ANOMALIES OF THE HEAD AND NECK.
  16. 16CHAPTER XI. SURGICAL ANOMALIES OF THE EXTREMITIES.
  17. 17CHAPTER XII. SURGICAL ANOMALIES OF THE THORAX AND ABDOMEN.
  18. 18CHAPTER XIII. SURGICAL ANOMALIES OF THE GENITO-URINARY SYSTEM.

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