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Author Roueché, Berton, 1911-1994.

Title The medical detectives / Berton Roueché
Published New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Truman Talley Books/Plume, [1988]
©1988

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 MELB  616.09 Rou/Mde  AVAILABLE
Description x, 421 pages ; 22 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: The Medical Detectives 1. Eleven BLue Men -- 2. A Pig from Jersey -- 3. A Game of WIld Indians -- 4. The Incurable Wound -- 5. CH3 CO2 C6 H4 CO2 H (Aspirin) -- 6. The Liberace Room -- 7. Impression: Essentially Normal -- 8. A Swim in the Nile -- 9. The Orange Man -- 10. The Dead Mosquitos -- 11. Something a Little Unusual -- 12. A Man Named Hoffman -- 13. Three SIck Babies -- 14. The West Branch Studies -- 15. The Huckleby Hogs -- 16. All I COuld Do Was Stand in the Woods -- 17. As Empty as Eve -- 18. Two Blue Hands -- 19. Antipathies -- 20. Sandies -- 21. A Rainy Day on the Vineyard -- 22. Live and Let Live -- 23. The Fumigation Chamber -- 24. A Lean Cuisine -- 25. The FOulest and Nastiest Creatures That Be -- Index
Notes "The classic collection of award-winning medical investigative reporting"--Cover
"All of the material in this book has previously appeared in the New Yorker in somewhat different form"--T.p. verso
Includes index
Subject Medicine -- Case studies.
LC no. 90014267
ISBN 0452265886 (paperback)