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  The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases (Paperback) By (author) Mark Roberts, By (author) Jeff Vandermeer, Edited by Mark Roberts, Edited by Jeff Vandermeer

  

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  Short Description for The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited DiseasesOffering complete histories, symptom guides, and suggested treatments for rare and fantastical ailments, here is a dose of good humor for every sleep-deprived medical student, overworked physician, hypochondriac, and curious reader.
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  • Publisher: Bantam
  • Published: 26 April 2005
  • Format: Paperback 320 pages
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  • Categories: Anthologies (non-poetry) | Contemporary Fiction | Short Stories | Humour
  • ISBN 13: 9780553383393 ISBN 10: 0553383396
  • Sales rank: 125,343

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• "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.