TY  - BOOK
AU  - Belofsky,Nathan
TI  - Strange medicine: a shocking history of real medical practices through the ages 
SN  - 0399159959 (pbk.)
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York, New York
PB  - Penguin Group
KW  - Medicine
KW  - History
KW  - Traditional medicine
N1  - "A Perigee Book."; Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-199) and index; Growing pains -- Medicine's dark ages -- The "Renaissance" -- The age of heroic medicine
N2  - Belofsky casts a gimlet eye on the practice of medicine through the ages and highlights the most dubious ideas, bizarre treatments, and biggest blunders
ER  -