Sources
| Source | ID | Link |
|---|---|---|
| GoodReads | 250296 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/250296 |
| Amazon |
Description
From the creators of Elric, the Sandman, and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, from some of the most profound imaginations in writing today—including 8 World Fantasy Award Winners—comes a collection of the outlandish, the sublime, and the hysterically funny. This ground-breaking medical guide documents those strange and varied illnesses ignored by the medical and scientific communities—from the macro- to the microscopic, from the chronic to the acute, via body, mind, and spirit.
First “published” in 1921, The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases was for several years disseminated to doctors around the world in the form of loose-leaf carbon copies and photocopies. During the 1930s, the cannery and medical publisher Trimble Fisheries, Ltd., published the Guide. Since then, London’s Chatto & Windus, Jolly Boy Publishing & Soap (Bombay), and Boojum Press (California) have had the honor of providing the Guide to thankful medical students and doctors. Today, Night Shade Books is proud to publish this special 83rd Commemorative Edition, complete with excerpts from prior editions.
From Freetown to Istanbul, Timbuktu to Ulan Bator, the Guide has proven its worth under less than ideal conditions. When a doctor lost in the Congo rainforests with only a few antibiotics and feral pygmy elephants for company cannot diagnose his odd spinal condition, he reaches for his handy copy of the Guide. When a family practice doctor cannot understand why a patient of 30 years with no history of mental defect suddenly begins to mimic inanimate objects, she turns to the reliable Lambshead Pocket Guide.
First “published” in 1921, The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases was for several years disseminated to doctors around the world in the form of loose-leaf carbon copies and photocopies. During the 1930s, the cannery and medical publisher Trimble Fisheries, Ltd., published the Guide. Since then, London’s Chatto & Windus, Jolly Boy Publishing & Soap (Bombay), and Boojum Press (California) have had the honor of providing the Guide to thankful medical students and doctors. Today, Night Shade Books is proud to publish this special 83rd Commemorative Edition, complete with excerpts from prior editions.
From Freetown to Istanbul, Timbuktu to Ulan Bator, the Guide has proven its worth under less than ideal conditions. When a doctor lost in the Congo rainforests with only a few antibiotics and feral pygmy elephants for company cannot diagnose his odd spinal condition, he reaches for his handy copy of the Guide. When a family practice doctor cannot understand why a patient of 30 years with no history of mental defect suddenly begins to mimic inanimate objects, she turns to the reliable Lambshead Pocket Guide.