Book 2012

Brief History of Bad Medicine

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Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group Limited
Language: English
Published: 2012

Medical errors
Quacks and quackery
Nostrums
History
Quackery

A history of medicine's infamous blunders and unexpected discoveries includes accounts of Typhoid Mary, Sigmund Freud's misuse of cocaine, and drugs that proved more harmful than the diseases they treated.