Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything by Nate Pedersen, Lydia Kang

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

Nate Pedersen, Lydia Kang

526 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history science adventurous informative fast-paced

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Discover 67 shocking-but-true medical misfires that run the gamut from bizarre to deadly. Like when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When snorting skull moss was a cure for a bloody nose. When consuming mail-order tapeworms was a la...

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