What's Wrong with You? : An Insider's Guide to Your Insides.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holper, Sarah.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine.

Medicine, Popular.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (215 pages)

Other Title:

What's Wrong with You?

Place of Publication:

Richmond : Hardie Grant Publishing, 2021.

Summary:

The curious science behind your medical symptoms.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Table of Contents

Introduction

BRAIN

HEADACHE: how to make your brain squeeze out the base of your skull, and why sex can make you feel like you've been hit over the head with a baseball bat.

JET LAG AND YOUR BODY CLOCK: how a partial brain transplant between hamsters explains why you feel crummy stepping off an international flight.

FEVER: how you can treat a patient with syphilis by infecting them with malaria, and why the jazz hit 'Fever' terrifies doctors.

YAWNING: during which you will almost certainly feel an irrepressible urge to yawn.

HEAD

BALDING: how removing the testicles prevents balding, and why Caesar really wore laurel wreaths.

EARACHE: methods to age a whale via earwax, and how humans invented floppy-eared dogs.

HEARING LOSS: what?

NOSEBLEEDS: the one thing you never want trapped up your nose, and the one time that Ralph Wiggum was right.

MOUTH AND THROAT

BAD BREATH: what it means if your breath smells like nail polish remover, fish, or the carcass of a dead horse.

TASTE AND SMELL (LOSS OF): the curious reason why John Harvey Kellogg deliberately made corn flakes taste bland, and the one meal astronauts are obsessed with eating while in orbit.

VOICE (LOSS OF): discover what happens when a child accidentally inhales a goose's voice box.

ACID REFLUX: the mechanism by which you die if molten gold is poured into your throat, and why reflux feels like this.

COUGH: learn how to interpret a cough that sounds like a honking Canada goose, and discover the most depressing way to die on New Year's Eve.

GUTS

NAUSEA AND VOMITING: including a blow-by-blow description of death from oesophageal rupture secondary to prodigious spewing.

DIARRHOEA: how to assess toilet flush strength, and what happens when you give a fraudulent cancer diagnosis to a medical student while probing his rectum.

FARTS AND BURPS: why a fart is never your fault, and what the colour of your ignited fart's flame tells you about your gut bacteria.

URINARY UPSETS: why you shouldn't drink your urine, eat yellow snow, or believe people who market bottled water.

SKIN

BRUISING: discover the colours of other creatures' blood, and how a medication overdose possibly inspired Vincent van Gogh's penchant for yellow.

ITCH: where whale breaching is de-romanticised, and I reveal how astronauts wearing space helmets scratch their noses.

ALLERGIES: how a Brazil nut allergy can ruin your sex life, plus why aristocrats tend to get hay fever more often than the plebs.

ACNE: why pus prevented Karl Marx from sitting down, and why 'Whitehead' is a surname, but 'Blackhead' isn't.

Acknowledgements

Copyright Page.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-74358-782-1

OCLC:

1257076335