Missouri's Mad Doctor McDowell: Confederates, Cadavers and Macabre Medicine

by Victoria Cosner and Lorelei Shannon

Book Overview

Body snatcher. Grave robber. Mad scientist. Brilliant surgeon. Delve into the macabre world of St. Louis's Dr. Joseph Nash McDowell, a man so loathed by the public that he wore body armor and so idolized by his anatomy students that they dug up corpses for his experiments. This ghoulish doctor cast a pall over the city and left a host of fiendish mysteries. Did his mother's ghost actually help him escape an angry mob? Did he really hang the corpse...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467118885
• ISBN13: 9781467118880
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"