A review by bluejayreads
The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine by Thomas Morris

Did not finish book. Stopped at 70%.
I love reading "doctors of Reddit" threads, because for some reason I enjoy reading about all the injuries humans can survive and all the horrible things that can go wrong in our bodies. I picked this up because it sounded like it would be similar, except in book for and taken from historical cases. 

And for the first 60%, that's really what it was. The author is a medical historian, so he introduced, periodically interrupted, and concluded the accounts from historical medical journals with his own commentary explaining the origins and effects of the historical treatments, providing potential diagnoses in some cases, and comparing with how something similar might be treated in the modern day.

The main problem is that, like a "doctors of Reddit" thread, you can only consume it for so many hours before you get tired of the subject. This would be a great book to peruse occasionally instead of reading straight through - get your dose of the fascinating medical stuff and then put it back on your shelf until you get the craving again. I checked this book out from the library, though, and deadlines mean I'm not really able to do that. So, unfortunately, this book goes in the Did Not Finish pile. 
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