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Quackery
A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
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Ideal for readers fascinated by medical history, curious about historical oddities in healthcare, or anyone who enjoys learning about the strange side of science and medicine.
A tour of medicine's most outlandish misfires, Quackery dives into 35 "treatments", exploring their various uses and why they thankfully fell out of favour - some more recently than you might think.
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 base "Thunderclapper" pill to relieve your constipation. When you attempted to soothe your arthritic joints with a trip to a uranium mine.
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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 medicineβs most outlandish misfires, Quackery dives into 67 'treatments,' exploring their various uses and why they thankfully fell out of favour β some more recently than you might think.
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ISBN: 9780761189817
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 17 October 2017
Country: United States
Imprint: Workman Adult
Illustration: 4-C illustrations & photos thr
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
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Spine width: 26.0mm
Width: 156.0mm
Height: 206.0mm
Weight: 680g
Pages: 352
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Lydia Kang, M.D., is a practicing internal medicine physician and author of young adult fiction. Her YA novels include Control, Catalyst, and the upcoming The November Girl. She has gained a reputation as a medical consultant for fiction authors and teaches writers how to accurately maim their literary victims on her blog series, Medical Mondays. Nate Pedersen is a librarian, historian, and freelance journalist with over 400 publications in print and online, including The Guardian, The Believer, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Art of Manliness.
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