Quacks Fakers & Charlatans in English Medicine
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Quacks: Fakers & Charlatans in English Medicine By Roy Porter
2000 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 0752417762 | PDF | 192 MB
What did the people of 17th century England do when they got a dose of the clap? They reached for "Walker's Jesuit Drops" or "Wessels Specific Purging remedy for Venereal Diseases" of course. Did either work? Was urine-gazing by the 'pisse prophets' (with or without the patient being present) an effective diagnostic tool?
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