Missouri's Mad Doctor McDowell: Confederates, Cadavers and Macabre Medicine (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781467118880)

Body snatcher. Grave robber. Mad scientist. Brilliant surgeon. Delve into the macabre world of St. Louis's Dr. Joseph Nash McDowell, a man so loathed by the public that he wore body armor and so idolized by his anatomy students that they dug up corpses for his experiments. This ghoulish doctor cast a pall over the city and left a host of fiendish mysteries. Did his mother's ghost actually help him escape an angry mob? Did he really hang the corpse of his daughter in Hannibal's Mark Twain Cave? What very real horrors remained in his medical college after loyal Unionists drove him out? Dissect a life surrounded by speculation and a legend littered with ghosts.

Author: Victoria Cosner,Lorelei Shannon
ISBN-10: 1467118885
ISBN-13: 9781467118880
Publisher: History Press
Language: English
Published: 10/12/2015
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d