01908cam a2200361 i 4500 418102176 TxAuBib 20200225120000.0 110403s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781605982540 1605982547 (OCoLC)711051838 TxAuBib rda Norton, Trevor. Smoking ears and screaming teeth : a celebration of scientific eccentricity and self-experimentation / Trevor Norton. First Pegasus Books cloth edition. New York, N.Y. : Pegasus Books, [2011] Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co. ℗2011. xi, 404 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Originally published: London : Century, 2010. Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-396) and index. He came, he sawed, he chancred -- Sniff it and see -- Trials and tribulations -- Lovely grubs -- A diet of worms -- The desire for disease -- The disease detectives -- That unhealthy glow -- Found to be wanting -- Something in the blood -- A change of heart -- Behind the lines -- Suffer -- Adrift and alone -- Carnivorous and coming this way -- Into the abyss -- High, fast, and hazardous -- Risky business. Discusses scientists throughout history who have performed dangerous experiments on themselves for the benefit of humankind, including a zoologist who ate slug soup and a Nobel Prize-winning surgeon who put a catheter into his own heart. 20200225. Self-experimentation in medicine History. Medicine, Experimental History. Eccentrics and eccentricities. Autoexperimentation history.