Curiosities in Medicine : Alphabetically / by Sibylle Scholtz, Myriam Becker, Lee MacMorris, Achim Langenbucher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scholtz, S. (Sibylle)

Series:

Medicine Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--History.

Medicine.

History of Medicine.

Clinical Medicine.

Local Subjects:

History of Medicine.

Clinical Medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (475 pages)

Edition:

2nd ed. 2025.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2025.

Summary:

This 2nd edition sheds new light on the curious side of Medical History. Carl Sagan said: ”You have to know the past to understand the present.” This collection of 100 short stories, written by experts in the field, inspires curiosity and provides a detailed look at the History of Medicine. It investigates many topics, including ancient Egyptian knowledge, the fundamental importance of toothache and how it birthed Anesthesia, and why and when women were allowed to run marathons. The authors report on the background of rubber gloves, the stethoscope and the intraocular lens. Historically important biographies are included, such as those of Arthur Conan Doyle, Napoleon Bonaparte and Claude Monet. The book is also available as an audio version. It is relevant for those interested in Medicine and its curious history.

Contents:

1. 1. Alhazen. Madness to Mosque

2. Apple. Ocular Pathology and David J. Apple

3. Atropos. The Terrible Daughter

4. Auenbrugger. Thumping to Tapping

5. Bach. God Listens When the Angels Play Bach

6. Barbieri. Il Guercino (The Cross-Eyed)

7. Berger. A Tiny Space with Big Implications

8. Biometry. Calculating the Human Eye

9. Bleuler. From “Madness” to Modern Psychiatry

10. Blonsky: Flying Babies?

11. Blue: Blue – a Late Entry

12. Borodin: Science, Music and the Eye

13. Brandström. The Angel of Siberia

14. Braille. Braille Brings “Light” into Darkness

15. Bruegel. Art, the Bible and the Blind

16. Cassatt. An Insight into Her Eyesight

17. Chinin: Famous Men and the Lady

18. Contraception: Dung and Birth

19. Couching Cataracts: Just push it down!

20. Credé. Credé, a Baby, and Silver Nitrate

21. Diabetes. A New Life

22. Doyle. Crime and Medicine

23. Düsing. Nature’s Unexpected Baby Boom

24. Dunant. From Riches to Rags

25. Epilepsy. Divine or Demonic?

26. Ether. The Birth of Modern Anaesthesia: The Death of Friendships

27. Eye Banking. Eye Banking and the Lions

28. Fercher. A Quantum Leap in Modern Cataract Surgery

29. Finger Print. Your Skin and Your Identity

30. Football for the Blind. If You Hear “Voy!” Watch Out!

31. Franklin. From Reading Stones to Bifocals

32. Glass Eyes. Sammy Davies Jr, Peter Falk, and Dr. Heinrich Adelmann: What do they have in common?

33. Gödel. The Genius and his Taster

34. Goethe. Genius Gone Wrong?

35. Guide Dogs. The Four-Footed Eyes of the Blind

36. El Greco. A Hundred Years of Fallacies

37. Gullstrand. Ophthalmologist Wins Nobel Prize

38. Gustav II. Adolf. Myopia, Oh My!

39. Haidinger. The Mystery in the Eye - Haidinger and the Vikings

40. Haldane. Blood and Breath

41. Hales. The Doctor and His Horse

42. Halsted. A Glove for Love

43. Helium. An Enema for Performance

44. Helmholtz. How to “See” the Back of the Eye

45. Hysteria. Hysteria and the Hammer

46. IOL Material. A Cloudy World is Cleared

47. IOL Power Calculation

48. Iry. Egypt 2400 BCE: Iry – The First Known Ophthalmologist

49. Jersey. 33 Meters Below the Surface

50. Jastrow. Do you trust your eyes??

51. Jung-Stilling. The Castle, the Ghost and, the Ophthalmologist

52. Keller. Helen Keller and the “Knights of the Blind”

53. Kirschner. The Pain Went Away

54. Kneipp. The Priest and the “Water Cure”

55. Kohl. Kohl – Protective or Toxic?

56. Korotkow. Listen and Learn!

57. Laënnec. The Extendable Ear

58. LASER. “A solution in search of a problem”

59. Leprosy. “The Punishment of God”?

60. LSD. Hellfire, Hallucinogen or Remedy?

61. Lully. The Maestro Who Danced with Death

62. Mann, Ida. A Woman in a Man’s World

63. Marathon. The Ladies and the “Marathon Doctor”

64. Marfan. Spider Fingers and Near- Sightedness

65. Meyer-Schwickerath. The “Trapped Sun”

66. Methamphetamine. Fuel for the Soldiers?

67. Monet. The Cataract and the Water Lily

68. Mozart. Vesalius to Mozart via Chocolate

69. Napoleon. The “Butt” of History

70. OCT. OCT is Not the Month!

71. Odilia. Saint of the Blind

72. Optography. The Last Image

73. OVD. Angel Cake Batter and the Eye

74. Paganini. Priapism and Paganini

75. Poppies. Beautiful but toxic – and healthy??

76. Pythagoras. Pythagoras, the Bean-Banner?

77. Quarantine. Relevant. Yes

78. Radium. Radium as a Cure for Blindness?

79. Ridley. Fortune from Misfortune

80. Santorio. The Man who Lived on a Scale

81. Sauerbruch. Tyrant, Genius, and Friend of Hitler

82. Schweitzer. The Polymath and the People

83. Scopoli. Poison, Drugs and Medicine

84. Steiniger. The Weird Beard

85. Taylor. A Gold Plated Charlatan

86. Toothpaste. Smile: From Powdered Bone to Minty Fresh

87. Turner. The Sea, Art and, Cataracts

88. Tyndall: Tyndall, the Polymath

89. Ultrasound. Bats Have It!

90. Urine. The Golden Elixir

91. da Vinci. Leonardo da Vinci’s dream

92. Visual Aids. Adding to the Eye

93. Voltaire. The Brewed Affair

94. Washington. America´s Historical Tooth

95. White Cane. To See or Be Seen

96. Wichterle. A “Softer” Way to See

97. Xenocrates. “Nasty” Business

98. Yersinia pestis. Passion for Vietnam and Science

99. Zamenhof. Ophthalmologist and the “Non-Nation”

100. Zirm. Banking on Sight.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

3-031-94848-3

9783031948480

OCLC:

1568050609