Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
$27.00
Subject: Medical / Nursing
Author: Pedersen, Nate
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Date Published: 10-2017
ISBN: 0761189815 | EAN: 9780761189817
BasicBinding: Hardcover
Features: Illustrated, Index, Price on Product | Pages: 352
Annotation: "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"--
"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"--
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