Quacks! : dodgy doctors and foolish fads throughout history

Tucker, S. D.2018

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Prepare to feel queasy. Are you suffering from a life-threatening illness? Do you possess chronic fatigue, sexual dysfunction, severe mental impairment, or have to endure constant, debilitating pain? If not, then you might do so after reading this book! Snake-oil salesmen, preying like vultures upon the hopes and fears of the sick and the dying, are nothing new. Up until relatively recently in history, before the miraculous medical advances made during the 20th and 21st centuries, doctors killed many more patients than they ever cured - and it was no wonder when you consider some of the appalling quacks who have felt themselves qualified to call themselves doctors. Was it really possible to diagnose a person's illness by sniffing their soul through their hair, as one medical man thought? Did Jesus give His followers enemas? This book explores these questions and more.