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Quackery : A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything by Lydia Kang; Nate Pedersen is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Quackery : A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything about?

"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."-- Provided by publisher

Who reads Quackery : A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything?

Author

Lydia Kang; Nate Pedersen

Publisher

Workman Publishing Company;Kang, Lydia, Pedersen, Nate, Recorded Books, Inc

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780761189817

Category

history

Subjects

Business, Medical, Science

Rating

3.92 / 5 (100 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14