Strange medicine
Subtitle: a shocking history of real medical practices through the ages
By: Nathan Belofsky
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: TarcherPerigee
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780399159954
Subjects: Medicine; Traditional medicine; History
Description: Belofsky casts a gimlet eye on the practice of medicine through the ages and highlights the most dubious ideas, bizarre treatments, and biggest blunders.
Notes: "A Perigee Book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [179]-199) and index.
Table of contents: title: Growing pains; title: Medicine's dark ages; title: The "Renaissance"; title: The age of heroic medicine.