Wide ranging freelance writer Pickover revives a scandal from 18th-century London that titillated the public and embarrassed the medical establishment. Mary Tof... » 

Wide ranging freelance writer Pickover revives a scandal from 18th-century London that titillated the public and embarrassed the medical establishment. Mary Toft seemed an ordinary young women, though with a peculiar passion, until she gave birth to something inhuman. She was propelled into a dark medical subculture in the royal courts, and spawned «