A review by hannahstohelit
Eleven Blue Men And Other Narratives Of Medical Detection by Berton Roueché

Not really a reviewable book per se but I love Roueche and I loved reading this. I'd previously read The Medical Detectives so I knew that this collection (and the other one I have out that I'll read next week) would have some duplicates, and I knew that not all the essays here would be medical mysteries, but it was still an excellent time that I loved reading. I really enjoyed some of the non-medical mystery articles as well- I now need to ask my grandfather if he remembers getting vaccinated for smallpox in 1947, and reading an article about the development of antibiotics from a time when they were brand new with only five on the market was absolutely fascinating. It's great how set these are in their time and place- some are medical mysteries that would be mysteries now too but that take their time very much for granted, and some are genuinely witnessing the discovery of something that is old hat now 60-90 years later (the psittacosis essay, for example). Just always fascinating.