Missouri's Mad Doctor McDowell: Confederates, Cadavers and Macabre Medicine
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Body snatcher. Grave robber. Mad scientist. Brilliant surgeon. Delve into the macabre world of St. Louis's Dr. Joseph Nash McDowell, a man so loathed by the public that he wore body armor and so idolized by his anatomy students that they dug up corpses for his experiments. This ghoulish doctor cast a pall over the city and left a host of fiendish mysteries. Did his mother's ghost actually help him escape an angry mob? Did he really hang the corpse...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1467118885
ISBN13:9781467118880
Release Date:October 2015
Publisher:History Press
Length:144 Pages
Weight:0.74 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"
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