Medicine's Strangest Cases

Medicine's Strangest Cases is a choice prescription of medical oddities,

featuring an Essex man who kept getting pregnant; the physician who gave

syphilis its name by writing a poem about it; and the future Lady Hamilton's

training as a courtesan through giving lectures on healthy living. We also meet

nineteenth and twentieth century doctors whose response to people having fun

was to warn of danger - they condemned bicycling because it could stimulate

the 'sexual system' of 'women of a certain temperament'; and protected young

men from the dread disease of masturbation by blistering their penises with

iodine (ouch!). Laugh out loud and wince in sympathy with this rundown of the

most bizarre medical cases in history.