All the organs of the body have their mythology: the heart would be like the bedroom of love, according to Descartes the soul would nest in the pineal gland, the nose would accurately reflect the character of the person. Fueled by legends, religions and popular advice, these myths about the various parts of the body have shaped medicine, its concepts, its diagnostic and healing 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 leisurely writing that makes him unique, this pathologist who is fond of painting, literature and history dwells 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 of how this or that ailment is understood today. Erudition, astuteness and humour are the keys to exploring the promise of head transplantation, the fad for enemas that has fallen into disrepair, the relationship between the doctor and his patient or the omnipresence of the hospital in contemporary life. Penetrating and endearing, these essays on corporeality are the literary way of going beyond the body and its myths.