What the Apothecary Ordered Questionable Cures Through the Ages (Old House)
Caroline Rance
Troubled by toothache? Dogged by dipsomania? Perhaps you have been poisoned or find yourself with 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 is full of the dangerous ministrations of healers of yore. Everyday illnesses, beauty, surgery, sexual performance and madness - whatever the nature of the malady, within these pages the reader will find a cautionary tale about entrusting its treatment to the experts.
Tahun:
2014
Penerbit:
Old House
Bahasa:
english
Halaman:
181
ISBN 10:
1783660279
ISBN 13:
9781783660278
File:
EPUB, 57.92 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 2014