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Mary Toft was a young woman with a peculiar passion and an ordinary life that was forever changed when she gave birth to something nonhuman. This incredible story can justifiably be called history's most fascinating medical mystery, a dark, true-life Alice in Wonderland tale with a streak of horror. With numerous illustrations, this is an engrossing and thoroughly unique introduction to eighteenth-century science and its metaphor for today's scientific superstitions and politics.Pickover, Clifford A. is the author of 'Girl Who Gave Birth to Rabbits A True Medical Mystery' with ISBN 9781573927949 and ISBN 1573927945.
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