Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
9 hrs. 25 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Lydia Kang
Author
Nate Pedersen
Narrator
Alexey Kashcheyev
Narrator
Alexey Kashcheyev
Description
“The Story of Charlatanism” by doctor of medicine Lidia Kang and journalist Nate Pedersen is a story of the worst ways of healing practiced by doctors, healers, and fraudsters from ancient times to the present day. Today many of these methods seem unbelievable: imagine an era when doctors prescribed opium for infant crying, mercury for yellow fever, and cauterization with red-hot iron as a treatment for love’s pains.
These tales of strange—and frankly dangerous—treatment, illustrated with old engravings, photographs, and advertising leaflets (in a print edition), are not only evidence of humanity’s irresistible urge to stay alive, but also a chance to consider that charlatanism isn’t limited to the past. After all, someday people might discover that our modern ways of staying healthy, beautiful, and young are also meaningless—or dangerous.
These tales of strange—and frankly dangerous—treatment, illustrated with old engravings, photographs, and advertising leaflets (in a print edition), are not only evidence of humanity’s irresistible urge to stay alive, but also a chance to consider that charlatanism isn’t limited to the past. After all, someday people might discover that our modern ways of staying healthy, beautiful, and young are also meaningless—or dangerous.
12:45
00_Predislovie perevodchika. Vvedenie
20:46
01_Elementy. Lekarstva iz tablitsy Mendeleeva
20:59
02_Surma. Poslednyaya oshibka Olivera Goldsmita
18:17
03_Myshyak. Poroshok dlya nasledstva, poedateli krysinogo yada
17:22
04_Zoloto. Filosofskiy kamen, izbavlenie ot pyanstva
27:14
05_Radiy i radon. Otravlennyy bogach, semeystvo Kyur
20:23
06_Opiaty. Bogi v makovyh venkah, kamen bessmertiya
18:17
07_Strihnin. Otravlennye marafontsy, smertelnye derevya
17:32
08_Tabak. Sigarety po retseptu, zubnaya pasta s nikotinom i vduvanie dyma v zadnitsu
14:17
09_Kokain. Veselye eksperimenty, Zigmund Freyd
14:48
10_Alkogol. Peschernye lyudi, potroshenye gladiatory
21:46
11_Zemlya. Sdelka v kamere smertnikov, terra sigillata
18:32
12_Protsedury i Manipulyatsii. Raschleneniya, svezhevaniya
21:39
13_Lobotomiya. Drevnie cherepa s dyrkami, kamen bezumiya
19:41
14_Prizhiganiya i naryvnye sredstva. Goryachie golovy
18:25
15_Klizmy i klistiry. Samootravlenie, boyazn trupnogo yada
18:53
16_Gidropatiya i lechenie holodnoy vodoy. Avstriyskiy geroy
17:58
17_Hirurgiya. Arbalet vmesto skalpelya, gonki na vremya
25:12
18_Anesteziya. Udushenie, snotvornye gubki, hloroform
17:39
19_Zhivye Suschestva. Zhutkie chervi, trupy i tselitelnaya sila chelovecheskoy ploti
22:30
20_Kannibalizm i trupnaya meditsina
16:49
21_Lekarstva iz zhivotnyh
17:38
22_Seks. Grecheskie orgii, retsept na tazovyy massazh
27:12
23_Golodanie. Postyaschiesya svyatye, «Golodnyy pereval»
16:08
24_Tainstvennye Sily. Volny, luchi i strannye vozdeystviya
18:44
25_Zhivotnyy magnetizm. Frants Mesmer, otets Maksimilian Hell
16:23
26_Svet. Sinee steklo, svetovye vanny Kelloga
18:08
27_Radionika. Nickelback, «Dinamizator»
29:03
28_Prikosnovenie monarha. SkrofulYoz, «Makbet»
