Magic, Medicine & Quackery
New York: A.S. Barnes and Company, 1968. First American Edition. Hardcover. 192 pages. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. In this book, Eric Maple explores the jungle of folk medicine where the healing arts began: the fantastic world of village wise-men, faith-healing priests and empirics of the Middle Ages. The author focuses on the Great Age of Quackery of the eighteenth century with its rampant exploitation of human gullibility by the most audacious quacks in history, and continues with the story of the entertaining street quacks of a generation ago and the Fringe Medicine Men of twentieth-century Britain and America. Interior and boards clean, dust wrapper foxed. Covered in protective mylar. Purple cloth covered boards. Near fine, in good dust wrapper. Item #4010
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