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Title: Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
Author: KANG LYDIA/PEDERSEN NATE
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 01/11/2017
Imprint: WORKMAN
Price: $45.00
Publishing status: Active
Journey back to a time when doctors tried to jolt your paralysed muscles awake with a
strychnine-laced enema. When a physician wrote you a prescription for the mercury-based
‘Thunderclapper’ pill to relieve your constipation. When surgeons promised to improve your virility
with goat-testicle implants. A tour of medicine’s most outlandish misfires, Quackery dives into 67
‘treatments,’ exploring their various uses and why they thankfully fell out of favour – some more
recently than you might think.
ISBN: 9780761189817
Pages: 352