{"product_id":"2940170576104","title":"Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat won't we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWell, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as immortality in a glass. And when strychnineamp;mdash;yes, that strychnine, the one used in rat poisonamp;mdash;was dosed like Viagra.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLooking back with fascination, horror, and not a little dash of dark, knowing humor, \u003ci\u003eQuackery\u003c\/i\u003e recounts the lively, at times unbelievable, history of medical misfires and malpractices. Ranging from the merely weird to the outright dangerous, here are dozens of outlandish, morbidly hilarious \"treatments\"amp;mdash;conceived by doctors and scientists, by spiritualists and snake oil salesmen (yes, they literally tried to sell snake oil)amp;mdash;that were predicated on a range of cluelessness, trial and error, and straight-up scams. \u003ci\u003eQuackery\u003c\/i\u003e seamlessly combines macabre humor with science and storytelling to reveal an important and disturbing side of the ever-evolving field of medicine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tantor Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47156616986864,"sku":"2940170576104","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170576104_p0.jpg?v=1763712894","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170576104","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}