Strange Medicine - by Nathan Belofsky (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>Strange Medicine </i>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, <i>Strange Medicine</i> presents strange but true facts and an honor roll of doctors, scientists, and dreamers who inadvertently turned the clock of medicine backward: <p/>- The ancient Egyptians applied electric eels to cure gout.<br>- Medieval dentists burned candles in patients' mouths to kill invisible worms gnawing at their teeth.<br>- Renaissance physicians timed surgical procedures according to the position of the stars, and instructed epileptics to collect fresh blood from the newly beheaded.<br>- Dr. Walter Freeman, the world's foremost practitioner of lobotomies, practiced his craft while traveling on family camping trips, cramming the back of the station wagon with kids--and surgical tools--then hammering ice picks into the eye sockets of his patients in between hikes in the woods. <p/><i>Strange Medicine</i> is an illuminating panorama of medical history as you've never seen it before.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Nathan Belofsky</b> is the author of <i>The Book of Strange and Curious Legal Oddities, </i> which has been featured in the New Yorker and on <i>Salon. </i>He lives in Manhattan.
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