Bizarre Medicine: Unusual Treatments and Practices through the Ages

"Recommended for high—school students as an introduction to the topic, and to general readers interested in browsing brief but fascinating medical history." — Booklist

Explore historical and contemporary fringe remedies seen as strange, ridiculous, or even gruesome by modern Western medicine but which nevertheless played an important role in the history of medicine.

From placing leeches on the neck to treat a cough to using crocodile dung to prevent pregnancy, a number of medical treatments t...