Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
Author: Kang, Lydia
ISBN: 9780761189817
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Year First Published: 2017
Pages: 352
Dimensions: 7.992 inches x 5.984 inches x
Format: Hardback
Description:
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
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Year First Published: 2017
Pages: 352
Dimensions: 7.992 inches x 5.984 inches x
Format: Hardback
Description:
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.
