text Marketplace of the marvelous : the strange origins of modern medicine
- Summary
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Looks at some of the stranger medical treatments in use in the nineteenth century, including bloodletting, phrenology, and hydropathy, and shows how these "quack" cures have influenced medicine today.
- Contents
- Medicine at the crossroads -- Every man his own physician : Thomson's botanic medicine -- The only true science of the mind : phrenology -- Quenching thirst, healing pain : hydropathy -- Dilutions of health : homeopathy -- Hypnotized : Mesmer and ... Read more
- Format
- text
- Description
- 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher
- Random House Inc 2014
| Library | Location | Status |
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| Woodmere (Main Branch) | 610 JAN in Adult Non-fiction | Available |
| Library | Location | Status |
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| TADL-WOOD | 610 JAN in Adult Non-fiction | Available |
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| Library | Location | Status |
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| Woodmere (Main Branch) | 610 JAN in Adult Non-fiction | Available |
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