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050	0	0	_aR730 _b.K36 2017
082	0	4	_a615.856 _223
100	1		_aKang, Lydia, _eauthor. _91137
245	1	0	_aQuackery : _ba brief history of the worst ways to cure everything / _cLydia Kang, MD, Nate Pedersen.
264		1	_aNew York : _bWorkman Publishing, _c[2017]
264		4	_c©2017
300			_aviii, 344 pages : _billustrations (some color) ; _c21 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aElements: prescriptions from the periodic table -- Antimony -- Mercury -- Arsenic -- Radium -- Gold -- The women's health hall of shame -- Plants & soil: nature's gifts -- Opiates -- Strychnine -- Tobacco -- Cocaine -- Alcohol -- Earth -- The antidotes hall of shame -- Tools: slicing, dicing, dousing & draining -- Bloodletting -- Lobotomy -- Cautery & blistering -- Enemas -- Hydrotherapy -- Surgery -- Anesthesia -- The men's health hall of shame -- Animals: creepy crawlies, corpses, and the healing power of the human body -- Leeches -- Cannibalism & corpse medicine -- Animal-derived medicines -- Sex -- Fasting -- The weight loss hall of shame -- Mysterious powers: waves, rays, and curious airs -- Electricity -- Animal magnetism -- Light -- Radionics -- The king's touch -- The eye care hall of shame -- The cancer cure hall of shame.
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aQuacks and quackery _xHistory. _91138
650		0	_aMedicine _xHistory. _91139
650		0	_aWit and humor _91141
700	1		_aPedersen, Nate, _eauthor. _91140
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