A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
by
Lydia Kang, MD, Nate Pedersen
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
What won’t we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth?
Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as immortality in a glass. And when strychnine—yes, that strychnine, the one used in rat poison—was...