Your Teeth Can Explode:

by James Egan

Leprosy and halitosis don’t exist. Anemia is not caused by a lack of iron. Your teeth can explode. Men can develop breasts. You can die from being too happy. Making puns and being a perfectionist are recognized disorders. Tooth decay is contagious. There is a disorder that makes you incapable of sadness. You can be allergic to water. “Running amok” is a classified disorder. The best way to pass kidney stones is to ride the rollercoaster, Big Thunder Mountain, in Disney World. Although Usain Bolt is one of the fastest people ever, he has a curved spine. There’s a ten-minute test to see if a child suffers autism. Some dwarves are immune to diabetes and cancer. Boanthropy is a disorder that causes a person to believe they are turning into a cow. There’s a condition that makes you drunk even if you don’t drink alcohol. Smallpox is not the only disease to be eradicated. Adermatoglyphia stops a person from developing fingerprints. Anyone with this condition is not allowed in the United States. In the film, The Little Mermaid, Ariel suffers a condition called Identity Annihilation. Doctors believed polio was caused by eating ice-cream. There are disorders that turn your blood and skin green.

202 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 31, 2019

Reviews

[Emma]

This book is incredibly niche, and if you don’t have an interest in the human body and the many weird and rare disorders that exist and how we treat them, then it’s not going to be for you.
I however, thoroughly enjoyed it. Very interesting and fun and I’d read a second instalment tomorrow if it existed. My only complaint is I’d have liked some more in-depth explanations as to why certain things happen and what the appropriate treatment plan is and why and most intriguingly, what we used to think was wrong and how we “treated it” before modern medicine.