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Medicine’s bizarre history: electric eels, ice picks, and stranger.
Strange Medicine
A Shocking History of Real Medical Practices Through the Ages
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- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
25 September 2013
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Summary
Strange Medicine casts a gimlet eye on the practice of medicine through the ages that highlights the most dubious ideas, bizarre treatments, and biggest blunders. From bad science and oafish behavior to stomach-turning procedures that hurt more than helped, Strange Medicine presents strange but true facts and an honor roll of doctors, scientists, and dreamers who inadvertently turned the clock of medicine backward:
- The ancient Egyptians applied electric eels to cure gout. <…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780399159954 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0399159959 |
| Author: | Nathan Belofsky |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | TarcherPerigee |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 25 September 2013 |
| Weight: | 159g |
| Dimensions: | 127mm x 216mm |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
A-Format111 × 178 mm
B-Format130 × 198 mm
127 × 216 mm
C-Format153 × 234 mm
A4210 × 297 mm
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About The Author
Nathan Belofsky
Nathan Belofsky is the author of The Book of Strange and Curious Legal Oddities, which has been featured in the New Yorker and on Salon. He lives in Manhattan.
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