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This timely volume illustrates how and why the fight against quackery in modern America has largely failed, laying the blame on an unlikely confluence of scient
Language: en
Pages: 353
Pages: 353
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-10-17 - Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
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 in
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Tempus Publishing, Limited
This illustrated history of quack doctors in their heyday of the 17th and 18th centuries looks at the various treatments and diagnostic methods used.
Language: en
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InQuack! Tales of Medical Fraud from the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices, curator Bob McCoy shares his collection of the hilarious, horrifying, and prepo
Language: en
Pages: 206
Pages: 206
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-01 - Publisher: The History Press
From the harangues of charlatans to the sophisticated advertising of the Victorian era, quackery sports a colourful history. Featuring entertaining advertisemen