The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases, 83rd Edition

The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases, 83rd Edition

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Publisher's Synopsis

"Imagine if Monty Python wrote the Mayo Clinic Family Health Book, and you sort of get the idea. Afraid you're afflicted with an unknown malady? Finally you have a place to turn!" -Book Sense

You hold in your hands the most complete and official guide to imaginary ailments ever assembled-each disease carefully documented by the most stellar collection of speculative fiction writers ever to play doctor. Detailed within for your reading and diagnostic pleasure are the frightening, ridiculous, and downright absurdly hilarious symptoms, histories, and possible cures to all the ills human flesh isn't heir to, including Ballistic Organ Disease, Delusions of Universal Grandeur, and Reverse Pinocchio Syndrome.

Lavishly illustrated with cunning examples of everything that can't go wrong with you, the Lambshead Guide provides a healthy dose of good humor and relief for hypochondriacs, pessimists, and lovers of imaginative fiction everywhere. Even if you don't have Pentzler's Lubriciousness or Tian Shan-Gobi Assimilation, the cure for whatever seriousness may ail you is in this remarkable collection.

Book information

ISBN: 9780553383393
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Imprint: Bantam Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 818.607
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 297
Weight: 413g
Height: 230mm
Width: 154mm
Spine width: 15mm