Ayan Panja MBBS, DRCOG, DFFP, MRCGP £14.95,  978-1-85315-631-1,  132pp,  Hardback,  June 2005

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Review in the Sunday Express
Amid genuinely useful information such as a test for colour blindness and a list of possible causes for heart murmurs, there is a mass of dotty detail… A healthy dose of humour keeps the hypochondria at bay. Five stars

The perfect gift for anyone who is interested in medicine, this pocket-sized miscellany contains everything you ever wanted to know about medicine and much more. Have you ever wanted to know where the phrase ‘going doolally’ comes from? Or how Viagra works? Or what the health giving properties of whisky are? If so, look no further because An Essential Medical Miscellany contains it all.

Designed as a mixture of quirky entertainment and information, as well as an occasional aide memoire for readers who work in healthcare, this essential miscellany would be ideal for your hypochondriac friends, your bookcase, your mother-in-law, your loo bookshelf, your bedside table, and for anyone who is into all things medical.

Examples of Content:
• Some mammoth medical myths
• Tomatoes and lycopenes
• How did Mozart die?
• The capacity of the human bladder
• What is Botox?
• When was the first vibrator invented?
• Possible hangover remedies
• What are the top ten causes of mortality?
• The Hepatitis Alphabet [A–G]
• How long is the human intestine?
• Who was the ‘Elephant Man’?
• Which celebrities have been saved by the Heimlich Manoeuvre?
• Which is the oldest medical school in the world?
• What are the General Medical Council’s ‘Duties of a Doctor’?
• Where did the ‘white coat’ originate?
• Famous epileptics, diabetics and suicides in history

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