Roald Dahl's Marvellous Medicine

Roald Dahl's Marvellous Medicine is a book by British professor of neurology Tom Solomon, published in 2016 by Liverpool University Press. In it is detailed the extent to which medicine affected the life of British children's writer Roald Dahl, and reveals several connections between those experiences and what he wrote in his books.

Solomon was a newly qualified physician at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, in 1990 when he came to care for Dahl, then terminally ill with leukaemia. The book is based on Solomon's recollections of their conversations. In it are details of the extent to which medicine affected Dahl's life, including his involvement in developing the Wade-Dahl-Till valve he helped create to treat the hydrocephalus his son Theo suffered after a severe head injury, the death of Olivia Dahl, stroke rehabilitation, and Dahl's measles vaccination letter of 1986 which he wrote in response to ongoing cases of measles in the United Kingdom at that time despite the introduction of an effective measles vaccine. It includes how the mixed up words of The BFG were possibly inspired by the language his first wife, Patricia Neal, used following her stroke.

A review of the book in the British Society of Literature and Science commended the book as an engaging and inspiring read that appeals to both scholars in medical humanities and general audiences. It stresses that storytelling, in all its forms, is crucial for diagnosis and fostering empathy. As in the Australasian Journal of Neuroscience it too described the writing as having a "wandering" narrative style, indicating that the timeline may be confusing for those unfamiliar with Dahl's life. The Lancet's review noted that although many people recognised Dahl's characters like oompa-loompas, they were generally unaware of his contributions to medicine, and Solomon's book filled that knowledge gap.