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

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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.

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As a physician I have been fascinated by quackery. My specialty, rheumatology, has seen a remarkable variety of "cures" including things like soaking hands in dish washing detergent or eating 9 gin soaked raisins. On the other hand, we have used gold and penicillamine to treat rheumatoid arthritis. I wish the authors had made more of an attempt to separate quackery from the legitimate attempt to improve medical care. The concepts of placebo and double blind studies are relatively new. Someone writing a book on quackery 50 years might consider therapies we currently use to be bogus. Gold and penicillamine work; we have just perfected better drugs and dropped using older ones. That does not mean we are quacks.Finally, I wish there were more references. I realize this is not a textbook but some documentation might be nice.It is, however, an excellent light read for anyone curious about medical history or fascinated by patients desperate for a cure and the remarkable number of evil people willing to prey on them.

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