Strange medicine : a shocking history of real medical practices through the ages /

Belofsky, Nathan.

Strange medicine : a shocking history of real medical practices through the ages / Nathan Belofsky. - First edition. - viii, 213 pages ; 21 cm

"A Perigee Book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-199) and index.

Growing pains -- Medicine's dark ages -- The "Renaissance" -- The age of heroic medicine.

Belofsky casts a gimlet eye on the practice of medicine through the ages and highlights the most dubious ideas, bizarre treatments, and biggest blunders.

0399159959 (pbk.) 9780399159954 (pbk.)

2013007162


Medicine--History.
Traditional medicine--History.

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