The Things They Do To You by John O'Grady - 1963

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Unfriendly organisms were once blasted from man's alimentary tract with castor oil. The patient soon staggered back to work cured. Or died. But no-one bothered him too much. No eager medical scientist was standing by to get stuck into him with needles and nozzles, to ask him very personal questions, and generally to violate his privacy in a horrible manner.

It is different for patients now, and John O'Grady is one with an unrivalled knowledge of modern doctors and the things they do to you. A tropical illness landed him in hospital, and this is the record of the friends and enemas he encountered there; of what he went through, and what went through him. Many people would say there is nothing funny about being done over by experts in indescribable ways: but this broadminded uproarious story is the book to change their minds.

O'Grady is an author well qualified to write on medical subjects. Growing up on his father's farm he ministered to sick livestock. Then he became a family chemist and ministered to sick customers who wanted to cure the red spider in their azaleas, and the dye which had run in their nighties. And during the war he was a nursing orderly in an Army camp hospital, one of the smartest privates ever to wear a giggle-suit.

It adds up to a fine career, and some of it is described in these pages. You'd hardly think O'Grady would also have had time to write five books for himself and Nino Culotta, but he has. Since They're a Weird Mob came out in 1957, his sales have topped half a million copies. And his fans will joyfully acclaim this book his best ever.