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Title: Quackery | Author: Lydia Kang / Nate Pedersen | Publisher: Workman Publishing Company (2017)
Patient Zero by Lydia Kang, MD, and Nate Pedersen
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Quackery: A Brief History Of The Worst Ways To Cure Everything by Lydia Kang, M.D. & Nate Pedersen Ever wondered where the saying ‘blowing smoke up your a**’ came from? Or the origins of the insulting nickname ‘Snake Oil Salesman’? Or perhaps you wondered about the healing properties of melted human fat, ground-up mummies, and moss cultivated on human skulls. If you did, I’ve found the book for…
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Feeling a bit under the weather? Why not try some Mercury? Or Arsenic? Or maybe some bloodletting will perk you right up? BTW, all of these are horrible ideas, but you can read all about them and a few other dubious remedies--such as cannibalism, cold water cure, and strychnine--in Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything by co-authors Lydia Kang, MD and Nate Pedersen, from Workman Publishing.