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Showing posts with label medical history. Show all posts
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Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Missouri's Mad Doctor McDowell: Confederates, Cadavers and Macabre Medicine

Missouri's Mad Doctor McDowell: Confederates, Cadavers and Macabre Medicine
by Victoria Cosnor
Pages: 144
Rating: 4 out of 5

Dr. Joseph Nash McDowell of St. Louis was known as many things: a brilliant surgeon and teacher, a grave robber and and husband and father. Some people say he was an amazing man while others wanted to kill him. His experiments and anatomy classes led to advances in medical science but at what cost? Was he really a mad scientist and did he really experiment on his family's corpses? You'll have to read this book to find out.