The Golden Age of Quackery
Author | : Stewart H. Holbrook |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Quacks and quackery |
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Author | : Stewart H. Holbrook |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Quacks and quackery |
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Author | : Stewart Hall Holbrook |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780758188854 |
Author | : Kenneth Grahame |
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Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 1942 |
Genre | : Children's literature |
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Author | : Jeremy Agnew |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2021-11-03 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1476645264 |
Through the Victorian and Edwardian eras, various health movements emerged in the transition to the modern age of scientific medicine. Strange medical devices and quack cures were pushed, often using crude remedies based on simplistic beliefs and the placebo effect. Currently, some of these treatments appear absurd, even cruel. Because some were properly used as appropriate therapies, it is difficult to label them altogether as bogus. This book takes a thorough look at unconventional medical gadgets, as well as the strange devices and therapies used by both fringe and legitimate healers, and places them in the perspective of modern medicine. The author argues that quackery should not be defined by the ineffectiveness of a therapy, but rather be based on the fraudulent intent of the people who pushed dishonest and deceptive remedies.
Author | : Kenneth Grahame |
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Release | : 1928 |
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Author | : Kenneth grahame |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2010 |
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Author | : Kenneth Grahame |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 79 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Children |
ISBN | : 9788381623186 |
Author | : |
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Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1997-08 |
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Cincinnati Magazine taps into the DNA of the city, exploring shopping, dining, living, and culture and giving readers a ringside seat on the issues shaping the region.
Author | : Lydia Kang |
Publisher | : Workman Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2017-10-17 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1523501855 |
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.
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Fraud |
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