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[First edition]. |
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xv, 171 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
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I. MEDICAL HISTORY REVISITED. Aesculapius and the early greeks / Richard Armour Hippocrates and the later greeks / Richard Armour -- Say the case is grave / E.S. Turner -- Directions, for recovering persons, who are supposed to to be dead, from drowning -- Sawbones' apprentice, getting acquainted with the medicines / Henry Clay Lewis -- Preface on doctors / George Bernard Shaw -- The soldier who saw everything twice / Joseph Heller -- II. WHAT BLUE CROSS DOESN'T TELL YOU. An ordeal to choke a sword-swallower / Shana Alexander Silver lining / R. G. G. Price -- Is it fatal, doc? / Arthur Hoppe -- The miracle drugs abroad / Art Buchwald -- III. POST-OPERATIVE HYSTERIA -- Operation frame-up / Claude Benjamin -- DId I ever tell you about my operation? / Corey Ford -- Operation operation / Jean Ken -- IV. THE BLESSED EVENT. Heroine / Kenneth R. Morgan, M.D. Little monster / Frank B, Gilbreth, Jr. -- V. DO IT YOURSELF, IF YOU DARE. Stop those hiccoughs! / Robert Benchley The literary treatment of insomnia / Saul Jarcho -- VI. GOOD COMPANY FOR YOUR MISERY. Address to the American Gynecological Society / Cornelia Otis Skinner Dental or mental, I say it's spinach / S.J. Perelman -- Churchill And the battles of medicine / Lord Moran -- The fine art of hypochondria / Goodman Ace -- The Ulcer / Bruce Jay Friedman -- VII. MEDICAL MIRTH. |
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Medicine -- Humor.
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Wit and Humor as Topic.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Adler, Bill, 1929- Prescription: laughter. [1st ed.] New York, Harcourt, Brace & World [1968] (OCoLC)598585477 |
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Online version: Adler, Bill, 1929- Prescription: laughter. [1st ed.] New York, Harcourt, Brace & World [1968] (OCoLC)604060740 |
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