Book description:The next book in the strange and fascinating series that began with the national bestseller Why You Shouldn't Eat Your Boogers & Other Useless or Gross Information About Your Body.
The national bestseller Why You Shouldn't Eat Your Boogers & Other Useless or Gross Information About Your Body uncovered everything one might want to know (and a few things one might not) about the human body. The follow-up bestseller Why Fish Fart & Other Useless or Gross Information About the World contained an artful selection of odd and/or unsavory facts about the world. Why Dogs Eat Poop scoured the animal kingdom for gross and or off-color facts about animals. In this delightfully disgusting new book in the series, David Haviland plumbs the world of medicine to uncover the answers to such vitally important questions as:
*What exactly is urine therapy?
*Is it safe to fly with breast implants?
*How did a nine-and-a-half-inch spatula find its way into a surgery patient's body?
*Why do some boxers drink their own pee?
*What is cyclic vomiting syndrome and how can one avoid it?
Any fan of the absurd and/or obscure is sure to delight in this strange (and slightly stomach-turning) book.
The national bestseller Why You Shouldn't Eat Your Boogers & Other Useless or Gross Information About Your Body uncovered everything one might want to know (and a few things one might not) about the human body. The follow-up bestseller Why Fish Fart & Other Useless or Gross Information About the World contained an artful selection of odd and/or unsavory facts about the world. Why Dogs Eat Poop scoured the animal kingdom for gross and or off-color facts about animals. In this delightfully disgusting new book in the series, David Haviland plumbs the world of medicine to uncover the answers to such vitally important questions as:
*What exactly is urine therapy?
*Is it safe to fly with breast implants?
*How did a nine-and-a-half-inch spatula find its way into a surgery patient's body?
*Why do some boxers drink their own pee?
*What is cyclic vomiting syndrome and how can one avoid it?
Any fan of the absurd and/or obscure is sure to delight in this strange (and slightly stomach-turning) book.
Review
I love trivia and this book delivers. Some of the facts are gross, like the fact that the Egyptians used crocodile dung as a contraceptive device. I'm glad we've progressed from that form of birth control. Some have historical significance. For example, when small pox was killing 1 in every 10 people, one man, Edward Jenner came up with a way to help people not contract the disease. He developed the vaccination. Vaccination comes from the latin word vacca which means cow pox. If you were injected with cowpox you couldn't get small pox.
Even the art world isn't immune. What did Cezanne, Monet & Van Gogh have in common? They all used the same pigment Emerald Green. One of the components of Emerald Green is Arsenic. For Cezanne it led to diabetes, Van Gogh developed neurological disorders, and Monet went blind.
These are just some of the things you'll read about in this book.
David Haviland is the coauthor of Why Dogs Eat Poop & Other Useless or Gross Information About the Animal Kingdom and was the ghostwriter for Why You Shouldn't Eat Your Boogers & Other Useless or Gross Information About Your Body and Why Fish Fart & Other Useless or Gross Information About the World. A journalist, ghostwriter, and editor, he lives in England.
I received this ARC free of charge from the publisher via Shelf Awareness for review.
Happy Reading and Happy Holidays!
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