Mad Medicine Part 2: Nicotine, Narcotics and Neurosurgery

Join us for part two as Beth explores more quack medicine and horrifying medical experiments.

REFERENCES

• Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything:

https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780761189817

• https://www.aamc.org/news/grave-errors-spooky-cures-and-creepy-medical-missteps-past

• https://time.com/4982099/quackery-medicine-history

• https://www.nytimes.com/video/well/100000010831025/the-internets-latest-wonder-drug-nicotine.html

• https://www.mdlinx.com/article/how-docs-are-responding-to-the-maha-linked-trend-pushing-nicotine-as-an-anti-dementia-hack/3KjgIchHjyeX6e6EDf3B4B

• https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2022/04/10-strange-medical-practices-from-history

• https://www.ohsu.edu/historical-collections-archives/theres-cure-historic-medicines-and-cure-alls-america

• https://wexnermedical.osu.edu/our-stories/old-fashioned-medicine-still-in-use

• https://www.healthline.com/health/old-medical-treatments-make-your-stomach-turn

• https://www.businessinsider.com/yes-bayer-promoted-heroin-for-children-here-are-the-ads-that-prove-it-2011-11?op=1

• https://www.pharmacytimes.com/view/-cure-all-medication-caused-death-in-thousands-of-babies

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sqBr4vJHaY

• https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/hole-in-the-head-trepanation

• https://www.vice.com/en/article/drilling-a-hole-in-your-head-for-a-higher-state-of-consciousness

• https://bcmj.org/mds-be/brief-reflection-not-so-brief-history-lobotomy