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.
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