Curing Hiccups with Small Fires: A Delightful Miscellany of Great British Eccentrics by Karl Shaw

Curing Hiccups with Small Fires: A Delightful Miscellany of Great British Eccentrics

Karl Shaw

314 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history funny lighthearted medium-paced
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'The English aristocrat John 'Mad Jack' Mytton died a bloated, paralysed and penniless debtor in prison. His premature demise was partly due to injuries sustained while setting fire to his own night-shirt to try to cure hiccups. Just before the ho...

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