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Mountebanks and medicasters : a history of Italian charlatans from the Middle Ages to the present / Piero Gambaccini ; translated by Bettie Gage Lippitt ; foreword by Giorgio Cosmacini.
- Title
- Mountebanks and medicasters : a history of Italian charlatans from the Middle Ages to the present / Piero Gambaccini ; translated by Bettie Gage Lippitt ; foreword by Giorgio Cosmacini.
- Author
- Gambaccini, Piero.
- Publication
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2004.
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Details
- Description
- viii, 247 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Uniform Title
- Mercanti della salute. English
- Alternative Title
- Mercanti della salute.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- Orignally published as: I mercanti della salute : le segrete virtù dell'imbroglio in medicina.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-242) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- People who go about swindling, with little exertion and for their own gain -- Grand entertainments -- Wise is the peasant who goes not seeking a doctors cure -- Scoundrels, quacks and murderers -- Charlatans against learned physicians -- Glorious Fioravanti, maker of miracles -- The feverish search for a remedy -- They make robbery seem a courtesy: Italian charlatans abroad -- The Alfier Lombardo, the unknown knight, and a charlatan doctor -- A carnival of publicity -- Physical recreations -- Mesmerists, hypnotists, and wondrous somnambulists -- Yearned-for, eternal youth -- It is said that medicine is of two parts: one is called a physician's science, the other is called art.
- ISBN
- 0786416068 (softcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2003021722
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library