'Quackery' Chronicles How Our Love Of Miracle Cures Leads Us Astray

Tobacco enemas? Mercury pills? Ice pick lobotomies? A new book explains how throughout history, miracle "cures" often didn't just fail to improve people's health, they maimed and killed.(Image credit: Courtesy of Workman Publishing)

Source: NPR Health and Science - October 15, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: April Fulton Source Type: news