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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Kang, Lydia, author.     Subjects     Quacks and quackery -- History.     Medicine -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Kang, Lydia, author.       by title:      Quackery : a brief h...         MARC Display

Quackery : a brief history of the worst ways to cure everything / Lydia Kang, MD, Nate Pedersen. by Kang, Lydia, author. New York : Workman Publishing, c2017. Subjects Quacks and quackery -- History.   Medicine -- History. ISBN:  9780761189817 (hardcover) : 0761189815 (hardcover) Description:  viii, 344 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm Contents:  Elements: 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. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date   Hana P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 615.856 Kang Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 615.856 Ka Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kailua-Kona Public Library Adult Nonfiction 615.856 Ka Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kaimuki Public Library Adult Nonfiction 615.856 Ka Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kihei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 615.856 Ka Checked out 06/22/2024 Add Copy to MyList Salt Lake-Moanalua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 615.856 Ka Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Waialua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 615.856 Ka Checked In   Add Copy to MyList

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