Quackery

Name: Quackery
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A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

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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 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.

Author Biography:

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.

Release date Australia

October 17th, 2017

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General (US: Trade)
Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

4-C illustrations & photos thr

Pages

352

Dimensions

160x211x30

ISBN-13

9780761189817

Product ID

26563194

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