Collecting weird and wonderful tales from the history of medicine, this anthology presents the German doctor who fought a duel with a sausage, the Harley Street physician-turned-novelist who invented a disease—and its remedy—to keep his clients happy, and the quiet and cautious Swiss scientist who inadvertently unleashed LSD on the world. Spanning from the heyday of Hippocrates through the present, the stories in this book are bizarre, fascinating, hilarious, and true.