Istoriia sharlatanstva - Kang L., Pedersen N.

The "history of quackery" by Dr. Lydia Kang and journalist Nate Pedersen is a story of the worst treatments that doctors, healers and crooks have practiced from antiquity to the present day. Today, many of these methods seem incredible to us: imagine the times when doctors prescribed opium in infant crying, mercury with yellow fever and burning with hot iron as a remedy for love torment.
These stories about strange and frankly dangerous treatment, illustrated with old prints, photographs and leaflets, are not only an important evidence of an irresistible human desire for life, but also an opportunity to reflect on the fact that quackery is not limited to the past. After all, someday about our modern ways to stay healthy, beautiful and young, too, it may turn out that they are meaningless or dangerous.