Strange
Medicine
It’s easy to take a pill when we aren’t feeling well. But did you know that the art
of making medicines goes back thousands of years? And early remedies weren’t
always so easy—or effective. Some seemed downright disgusting.
Wine infused with a venomous snake cured fatigue and hair loss.
Snail slime soothed burns.
A mixture of ear wax and mud treated headaches.
Discover how medicine was practiced centuries ago and how, eventually, scientists
discovered some truly amazing remedies, from the magic bullet that treated syphilis
to the insulin used for diabetes. Suddenly, strange medicine doesn’t seem so strange!
Read all the books in the Sickening History of Medicine series:
Plague! Epidemics and Scourges Through the Ages
Quacks and Con Artists: The Dubious History of Doctors
Strange Medicine: A History of Medical Remedies
Tiny Killers: When Bacteria and Viruses Attack
THE SICKENING HISTORY OF MEDICINE
A DIVISION OF LERNER PUBLISHING GROUP
