Barely Believable Stories from the Annals of Medical History

Barely Believable Stories from the Annals of Medical HistoryConstant Wonder • Season 2022, Episode 805, Segment 2

Dec 30, 2020 • 21m

A soldier who seemed immune to death, no matter how many injuries he sustained. A patient who performed his own appendectomy. A man who had had enough and decided to surgically remove his own bladder stone. Guest: Thomas Morris, author, “The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and other Curiosities from the History of Medicine”

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