{"product_id":"9781429964548","title":"The Medicine Cabinet of Curiosities: An Unconventional Compendium of Health Facts and Oddities, from Asthmatic Mice to Plants that Can Kill","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDelightful doses of medical miscellany about wacky doctors and their curious patients, from their smallest bones (the stapes) to their heaviest organs (the liver)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this addictive collection of trivia, Nicholas Bakalar, the \"Vital Signs\" columnist for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, spoons out the things you never realized you really want to know about your body and your health. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBakalar shares the wonders of medicine, from medical firsts (in 1667, the first survivor of a blood transfusion received sheep's blood) to medical onlys (rabies is the only infectious disease that is 100 percent curable when treated and 100 percent fatal if not). He takes a tour of diseases that belong in horror movies: liquefying organs, flesh-eating bacteria, mushrooms sprouting in the throat. He notes remarkable remedies, such as dark chocolate, which can stand in for blood-pressure pills. And he dissects the chemistry of the human body (including the 0.0000000000000015259 percent that is radium). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a specialist's attention to the funny bone as well as the gray matter, Bakalar's \u003ci\u003eThe Medicine Cabinet of Curiosities\u003c\/i\u003e tickles the curiosity of both the healthy and the hypochondriac, following Voltaire's dictum that \"the art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Holt, Henry \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47127326490864,"sku":"9781429964548","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429964548_p0.jpg?v=1769902249","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429964548","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}