Author : Jeremy Agnew
Release : 2021-11-03
Genre : Medical
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The Electric Corset and Other Victorian Miracles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Electric Corset and Other Victorian Miracles write by Jeremy Agnew. This book was released on 2021-11-03. The Electric Corset and Other Victorian Miracles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through the Victorian and Edwardian eras, various health movements emerged in the transition to the modern age of scientific medicine. Strange medical devices and quack cures were pushed, often using crude remedies based on simplistic beliefs and the placebo effect. Currently, some of these treatments appear absurd, even cruel. Because some were properly used as appropriate therapies, it is difficult to label them altogether as bogus. This book takes a thorough look at unconventional medical gadgets, as well as the strange devices and therapies used by both fringe and legitimate healers, and places them in the perspective of modern medicine. The author argues that quackery should not be defined by the ineffectiveness of a therapy, but rather be based on the fraudulent intent of the people who pushed dishonest and deceptive remedies.