It takes the average reader 4 hours to read The Medicine Cabinet of Curiosities by Nicholas Bakalar
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Delightful doses of medical miscellany about wacky doctors and their curious patients, from their smallest bones (the stapes) to their heaviest organs (the liver) In this addictive collection of trivia, Nicholas Bakalar, the "Vital Signs" columnist for The New York Times, spoons out the things you never realized you really want to know about your body and your health. Bakalar shares the wonders of medicine, from medical firsts (in 1667, the first survivor of a blood transfusion received sheep's blood) to medical onlys (rabies is the only infectious disease that is 100 percent curable when...
The Medicine Cabinet of Curiosities by Nicholas Bakalar is 240 pages long, and a total of 60,000 words.
This makes it 81% the length of the average book. It also has 73% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 27 minutes to read The Medicine Cabinet of Curiosities aloud.
The Medicine Cabinet of Curiosities is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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