Swallow: Foreign Bodies, Their Ingestion, Inspiration, and the Curious Doctor Who Extracted Them

by Mary Cappello

Book Overview

In this fascinating and lyrical book, the seemingly disparate but equally marvelous worlds of the circus and the medical amphitheater meet in characters ranging from the sword swallowers and women who lunched on hardware to the sensitive, bullied boy who grew up to be the father of endoscopy. The M tter Museum's Chevalier Jackson Foreign Body Collection, a cabinet filled with thousands of items that have been swallowed or inhaled, then extracted nonsurgically...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1595587772
• ISBN13: 9781595587770
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.2"