Dr. Sherwin Nuland, author of the National Book Award winning "How We Die", once again combines knowledge, compassion, and elegance of expression to shed light on the workings of our bodies from the perspective of a surgeon. Dr. Nuland recounts age-old legends about the functions and 'personalities' of the body's organs and, in riveting vignettes of the surgery he has performed, he describes the connections between myth and reality. A brilliant blend of science and folklore, The Mysteries Within reveals the enigmas not only of the body but also of the human imagination.

Fair, but I wasn't especially interested. He repeated himself a lot.

Hard to describe. It has to do with modern understanding of specific organs vs. pre-scientific misconceptions. He intersperses it with war stories from his 40 years as a surgeon.