All the body's organs have their mythology: the heart is like the chamber of love; according to Descartes, the soul nests in the pineal gland; the nose accurately reflects a person's character. Fueled by legends, religions, and popular tales, these myths about the various parts of the body have shaped medicine, its concepts, and its diagnostic and curative techniques. Francisco González Crussí dedicates the essays in this volume to the wonder of the human body and to the no less surprising interpretations that humanity has made over time to understand this accumulation of tissues and fluids. With the slow writing that distinguishes him, this pathologist, a fan of painting, literature, and history, focuses on the generative function and its pains, on nasality and smell, on digestion and death, on the diseases that animals have given us, and on the COVID-19 pandemic, threading personal anecdotes with descriptions. They have a wide range of topics to explore today's trends in a particular ailment. Erudition, wit, and humor are the keys to exploring the promise of head transplants, the fad of enemas, the relationship between doctors and their patients, and the omnipresence of the hospital in contemporary life. Penetrating and endearing, these essays on corporality are a literary way of going beyond the body and its myths.