And Thus Spilt the Tea

And Thus Spilt the Tea

Dorey Duncan Scott

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Voguegenics
Año de edición:
2025
ISBN:
9798232340599
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What do snake oil, tapeworm diets, and radioactive face cream have in common?They were all once sold as the secrets to health and beauty.And Thus Spilt the Tea: Outrageous Beauty & Medical Quackery Through the Ages takes readers on a witty, eye-opening journey through history’s strangest cures, fads, and 'miracle' treatments. From the mercury baths of the Renaissance to Victorian electro-magnetic machines, from spiritualist seances to dangerous beauty sleep tonics, this book uncovers the bizarre lengths people have gone to in the pursuit of hope, healing, and glamour.Blending sharp research with humor and a storyteller’s eye, author Dorey Duncan Scott reveals not just the shocking remedies themselves, but the cultural forces and human desperation that fueled them. Each chapter explores a new curiosity:Deadly beauty secrets - laudanum, lead, and powders from the tomb.Weight-loss nightmares - fad diets featuring parasites, starvation, and worse.Mind-body experiments - mesmerism, animal magnetism, and the rise of seances.Snake oil salesmen & miracle elixirs - the marketing geniuses of quack medicine.This is history at its quirkiest - outrageous, fascinating, and sometimes horrifying. Perfect for fans of weird history books, medical curiosities, and cultural oddities, And Thus Spilt the Tea entertains while reminding us just how far people will go in the name of beauty and health.Discover the outrageous world of beauty, medicine, and the eternal cost of hope - one bizarre 'cure' at a time.

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