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Doctors Killed George Washington
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Doctors Killed George Washington Paper back - 2002

by Erin Barrett,Jack Mingo

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This compilation of humorous episodes in the history of medicine includes such entries as Egyptian doctors' ancient practice of using a mallet for anesthesia, karaoke singers suffering from throat polyps in Japan, and George Washington's doctors bleeding their famous patient until he eventually died.

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Conari Press, February 2002. Paper Back. Good.
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  • Title Doctors Killed George Washington
  • Author Erin Barrett,Jack Mingo
  • Binding Paper Back
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Conari Press, Berkeley, California, U.S.A.
  • Date February 2002
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 169069
  • ISBN 9781573247191 / 1573247197
  • Weight 0.59 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.03 x 5.21 x 0.69 in (17.86 x 13.23 x 1.75 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Medicine, Wit and humor in medicine
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001005708
  • Dewey Decimal Code 610

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It's true that official death rates go down when doctors go on strike.

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About the author

Erin Barrett and Jack Mingo have authored 20 books, including How the Cadillac Got Its Fins, The Couch Potato Guide to Life and the bestselling Just Curious Jeeves. They have written articles for many major periodicals including The New York Times, Salon, Reader's Digest, and The Washington Post and have generated more than 30,000 questions for trivia games and game shows such as Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. Their website, which lists their This Day in History nationallysyndicated column.


Along with Erin Barrett, Jack Mingo published over 20 books, including Random Kinds of Factness (Conari, 2005, over 20,000 copies). He is a fulltime writer specializing in somewhat offbeat trivia books. In his spare time, Jack keeps six hives and half a million bees in his Alameda (Bay Area) backyard and sells their honey at local farmers markets. His bees produce 650 pounds of honey per year (59 gallons, 472 pint jars).

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