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Surgery of the Ambulatory Patient

By L. K. Ferguson

J.B. Lippincott Company, 1957

Words do no justice here. Simply imagine 664 photos and illustrations like these…

Obviously a well used copy...can you imagine seeing this on the desk of your physician?

"Dr. Mengele will see you now...no, put that reading material down and come now. He is a busy man!"

The yellow of the slipcover is caution enough for me...!

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I've always had a thing for beautiful lithographs...only this one is describing how to conduct an anal probe. So that is what those UFOs are up to...! Is the "Alien Autopsy" in here too?

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Ugh! I know some doctor somewhere has to look at this stuff, but why me?

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Yuck! Who would let an infection get that bad? Hello, Emergency Room please! Excuse me, I'm going to go barf now!

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Don't tell me, Cousin Harry decided to have photographs of his prodigious warts taken...but did he have to mix them with the family vacations photos? Yikes!

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Look, I dropped out of Premed so I wouldn't have to look at this stuff. And don't you dare tell me what this is illustrating! I do not want to know!

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That's enough, I'm grossed out now!

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