The Electric Corset and Other Victorian Miracles
Medical Devices and Treatments from the Golden Age of Quackery
Through the Victorian and Edwardian eras, various health movements emerged in the transition to the modern age of scientific medicine. Strange medical devices and quack cures were pushed, often using crude remedies based on simplistic beliefs and the placebo effect. Currently, some of these treatments appear absurd, even cruel. Because some were properly used as appropriate therapies, it is difficult to label them altogether as bogus. This book takes a thorough look at unconventional medical gadgets, as well as the strange devices and therapies used by both fringe and legitimate healers, and places them in the perspective of modern medicine.…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4766-8383-6
- EAN: 9781476683836
- Produktnummer: 37593813
- Verlag: Exposit Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.7 cm 471 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 471
Über den Autor
Jeremy Agnew, a biomedical electronics consultant, holds a PhD in engineering and has been involved in the design and manufacture of medical devices for more than 30 years. He lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and has written several books on the Old West.
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