Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
by Kang, Lydia
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What won't we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth? Packed with outlandish cures and outright scams, Quackery is a visually rich, humorously macabre, smart, and lively journey into the dark side of medical history. Revisit a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants, when snorting skull moss was a cure for a bloody nose, and when dieters too to ingesting sanitized tapeworms. From monkey glands to blood jam, Quackery shows us that when it comes to health, humans will believe literally anything.
Info
ISBN: 9780761189817
Published Date: October 17, 2017
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Language: English
Page Count: 344
Size: 8.19" l x 6.05" w x 1.07" h