
This is the companion book to the widely acclaimed Public Television Series "The New Medicine", and features in depth interviews with the participants of this program-world experts in their fields. These physicians and scholars work in leading medical schools and clinics across the country, including Harvard, the University of California and Duke. They present the hard scientific evidence behind t
How did people clean their rear ends before the invention of paper? The ancient Greeks used stones! Really! This rear-window view of the history of the world also details how the kings and queens of England and France wiped their royal asses? Not like you and I. What does Judaism, Islam and Buddhism have to say about this act? Surprisingly a lot. How did an ass-kisser -- that is, man who actually
Yes Virginia, pee really does have a history–a wild history which winds its golden stream through the origins of Count Dracula, the wool industry, ancient Hindu doctrine, cosmetics, unbelievably kinky sex, a major U.S Supreme Court decision, and Roman tax law. In these pages, you will discover that women’s urine was supposed to be the secret weapon of the South during the American Civil War, that
Are bellybuttons sexy? There is a group of people in the world who have erotic fantasies about them. Other groups go into a religious trance looking into their navels, still others have panic attacks just thinking about them. Alfred Hitchcock didn’t have one, we’ll explain why. Did you know that thousands of strange microbes live in your bellybutton? Scientists tell us why it attracts lint and the
Did you know that Kellogg's cornflakes were supposed to cure masturbation? Why was the Catholic church so insistent that sex could only be performed in the missionary position? In this book, you will find out why to testify meant to grab someone else's testicles, and why young boys in Papua New Guinea thought they had to drink older men's semen to attain puberty. St. Augustine believed that semen