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

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

Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen

344 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history science funny informative medium-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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