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History of Quackery. A brief overview of the worst cures from antiquity to the present day

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History of Quackery. A brief overview of the worst cures from antiquity to the present day
19.99 €
The History of Quackery by Lydia Kang, MD, and journalist Nate Pedersen is a history of the worst cures practiced by doctors, healers, and con artists from antiquity to the present day. Many of these methods seem unbelievable to us today: imagine a time when doctors prescribed opium for infant crying, mercury for yellow fever, and cauterization with a red-hot iron as a remedy for love's torment. These stories of strange and frankly dangerous treatments, illustrated with old engravings, photographs and advertisements, are not only an important testimony to the irresistible human desire for life, but also an opportunity to reflect on the fact that quackery is not limited to the past. Someday our modern ways of staying healthy, beautiful and young may also be found to be pointless or dangerous.
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