What the Apothecary Ordered: Questionable Cures Through the Ages - Hardcover

Rance, Caroline

 
9781908402868: What the Apothecary Ordered: Questionable Cures Through the Ages
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1908402865 ISBN 13: 9781908402868
Verlag: Old House Books, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

Troubled by toothache? Dogged by dipsomania? Perhaps you have been poisoned or accidentally got a bottle stuck up your bottom? This compendium of tried and tested (and terrifying) historical remedies is your go-to guide for how not to seek medical relief. From smearing mouse-dung on your teeth to drinking sulphuric acid, and from mechanical chin-reducing contraptions to 'super-super-excellent' quack medicines, here are to be found the most bizarre and alarming remedies of the last two thousand years. Spanning Ancient Greece and twentieth century Britain and America, What the Apothecary Ordered positively haemorrhages with the dangerous ministrations of 'healers' of yore. Everyday illnesses, beauty, surgery, sexual performance and madness - whatever the nature of the malady, here the reader will find a cautionary tale about entrusting oneself to the experts.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Caroline Rance is the curator and editor of www.thequackdoctor.com, a blog which investigates the stories behind the advertised medicines of the Victorian era. She has an MA in the history of medicine and has published both fiction and non-fiction.

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Verlag
Old House Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1908402865
ISBN 13 
9781908402868
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
176
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