Binding: Hardcover
Description: What won t we try in our quest for perfect health beauty and the fountain of youth? Well just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as immortality in a glass. And when strychnine yes that strychnine the one used in rat poison was dosed like Viagra. Looking back with fascination horror and not a little dash of dark knowing humor Quackery recounts the lively at times unbelievable history of medical misfires and malpractices. Ranging from the merely weird to the outright dangerous here are dozens of outlandish morbidly hilarious treatments conceived by doctors and scientists by spiritualists and snake oil salesmen (yes they literally tried to sell snake oil) that were predicated on a range of cluelessness trial and error and straight - up scams. With vintage illustrations photographs and advertisements throughout Quackery seamlessly combines macabre humor with science and storytelling to reveal an important and disturbing side of the ever - evolving field of medicine.
Title: Quackery A Brief History Of The Worst Ways To Cure Everything
Author(s): Pedersen Nate
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Barcode: 9780761189817
Pages: 352 Pages, 4-C Illustrations & Photos Thr
Publication Date: 10/17/2017
Category: History Of Medicine