Lydia Kang is an assistant professor of general internal medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and co-author of Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything (Workman, 2017). She is based in Omaha, Nebraska.
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The ‘Murderous’ Medical Practice Of The 18th Century
For centuries, people thought mercury was a safe, easy remedy for everything from melancholy to syphilis.