1 Out of 10 Doctors Recommends: Drinking Urine, Eating Worms, and Other Weird Cures, Cases, and Research from the Annals of Medicine
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1 Out of 10 Doctors Recommends: Drinking Urine, Eating Worms, and Other Weird Cures, Cases, and Research from the Annals of Medicine
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Overview
Three doctors explore and explain the least recommended techniques and cures lurking in the darkest corners of medicine through the ages.
Entertaining and informative, (and sometimes just plain gross), 1 Out of 10 Doctors Recommends examines the strangest and most unusual medical practices, including drinking your own urine to fight infection, using live eels to relieve constipation, and licking a patient’s head to diagnose cystic fibrosis. As licensed medical physicians who believe that humor is the best medicine, the authors decode the methods behind the seemingly mad science.
Fascinating examples include:
* the use of bee venom to treat herpes
* infecting yourself with intestinal parasites to relieve allergies
* “natural” ways to make your genitalia larger
* how the insertion of a potato reportedly stops post-delivery bleeding
* the effects of salt pork on a sore throat
* the supposed benefits of “vampire facials”
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781250070579 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | St. Martin's Publishing Group |
| Publication date: | 08/02/2016 |
| Pages: | 288 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.40(w) x 8.70(h) x 0.90(d) |
About the Author
MURDOC KHALEGHI, MD, splits his time between the emergency department, working with cool companies, and trying to stay warm during youth hockey games.
BOBBY SINGH, MD, practices in a large teaching hospital, as well as maintaining a private practice in forensic psychiatry and geriatric psychiatry.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
1 The Creepiest of All Treatments 3
2 Mote Doctors Smoke Camels… Well, What Else Would You Do to a Camel? 7
3 Stuck on You 9
4 Want Fries with That? 11
5 Unwrinkling a Wizard's Sleeve? 13
6 Placenta: It's Not Just for Breakfast Anymore 17
7 Does This Jersey Make Me Look Fat? 19
8 A Sting to Treat a Sting 21
9 You Can't Redo Everything 23
10 Country Music Can Be Deadly (for White People) 25
11 Dark Days: Experimentation on Mentally Challenged and Mentally 111 Patients 29
12 Stretch Armstrong's Got Nothing on This! 33
13 Two Eyes, Two Ears, Two Noses? 37
14 I Need This Like I Need a Hole in the Head! 39
15 Asthma, Allergies, and Long-Term Worms 41
16 The G-Spot Shot: Spot On or Spot Off? 43
17 Chakra the Monkey Tonight! 45
18 Moxibustion: Not Quite Smoking Banana Leaves, but Almost! 47
19 Maybe They Just Passed Gas 49
20 As If Birth Weren't Traumatic Enough 51
21 An Eerie Enema 53
22 They Say Stripes Are Slimming 57
23 Ping-Pong, Anyone? 61
24 Treating Hemorrhoids: A Real Pain in the Butt 65
25 Sore Throat: Better or Worse After These Remedies? 67
26 Facing the Facts When, in Fact, That's Not Your Face 69
27 Stocks Drop, So Might the Bodies 71
28 It's Just a Flesh Wound 75
29 When Blood Is Green and Urine Blue 77
30 Prosthetic Limbs of Today: Beyond Pegs and Hooks 79
31 Want Bigger Breasts? Have a Thai Stranger Slap Them Repeatedly 81
32 Truly Giving a Shit 83
33 "Hands-On" Help for Hysteria 87
34 Kim Kardashian's Vampire Facial (No, Not That Kind!) 89
35 MADW Wasn't Quite as Catchy 91
36 A Load of Bully 93
37 Why Didn't They Call It Uranus? 95
38 Kill Your Television … Except If Watching Modern Family 97
39 Holy Mackerel! 99
40 Take the Lead. It's Prescription 101
41 You Won't Always Be Able to Control Everything 103
42 What If They Were Lactating? 105
43 Well, Who Is Going to Open the Pickle Jar? 107
44 Don't Blame the Irish 109
45 And It Makes You Look Cool 111
46 Not Just Good for Serving Revenge 113
47 Does the Carpet Match the Drapes? 115
48 We Are Not Suggesting You Suck on It 117
49 So That's What the Track Marks Are From 119
50 Good for the Birds, Bad for the Worms 121
51 You Mean It Won't Fall Off? 123
52 How Many Licks Does It Take? 127
53 Try Not to Bruise It 129
54 The Only Time You Would Rather Deal with a Prick 131
55 It's All in Your Head 135
56 Forget the Eye of the Tiger 137
57 They Eventually Get Their Revenge 139
58 You Don't Need to Re-prove Gravity 141
59 Are They Crooked? 143
60 Dying for Sleep 145
61 Drinking to Improve Thinking 147
62 Your Mane or Your Manliness? 149
63 Paging Dr. Dracula 153
64 Hurling at High Speed 157
65 Possibly a Posset for Parity? 159
66 Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme 161
67 Finally, a Medical Reason to Not Exercise 163
68 Poor Pooh Bear 165
69 And It Burns, Burns, Burns, the Ring of Fire … 169
70 Snow in Your Nose 173
71 Aspire to Respire, but Avoid to Not Expire 175
72 Liquidating Lousy Lice 179
73 A Cup Should Not Go Up 181
74 Lettin' Go Lentigo 183
75 Hashing Out Headbanging Hazards 185
76 Heroin: The All-Time Addictive, Snorting, Injecting, Smoking, Disorienting, Constipating, So-You-Can-Throw-It-All-Away Medicine 189
77 Halting Harassing Hiccups 191
78 The Importance of Impotence 195
79 When the Treatment Is Worse Than the Disease 197
80 I'd Rather Have a Bottle in Front of Me Than a Frontal Lobotomy 199
81 To Do or Not 201
82 Take Two Skulls and Call Me in the Morning 203
83 Itching to Add Inches 205
84 Pacifying Mr. Gandhi and Quieting Mister Ed 209
85 Everybody Gettin' Horny 211
86 Click It or Ticket! 213
87 Sleep Divorce to Prevent Real Divorce? 215
88 Doctor's Orders: Twelve Bottles of Beer, by Mouth, Daily 217
89 Beating the Stick 219
90 No Wrinkle in Chyme? 223
91 Honey, I Healed the Wound! 225
92 The Sad Story and Salvation of Thalidomide 227
93 Finding Frankenstein's Fountainhead 229
94 Guess I'll Go Eat Worms 233
95 One of the Few Practices We Endorse 235
96 Getting Pissy 237
References 239
Index 261