Quackery A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

I recently read this book and thought you would really love it as it is a whole book of deep dives written very comedically.

It's called Quackery, A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything.

I marked my favorite part about the origins of the phrase, blowing smoke up your ass.

I will never ever- Something that does nothing to help you.

I will never ever say that lightly ever again.

I'm going to quote from the book Quackery again here.

And if you had any leftover water at the end of the day, advertisements encouraged consumers to water their plants.

One of the problems with the Revigador, besides slowly poisoning people with about five times the radium concentration recommended for drinking water, was its lack of portability.

Several similar but smaller devices sprang onto the market, including the Thomas Cone, the Zimmer Emanator, and the Radium Emanator.

All of which operated on a similar principle, that you simply plop them into water you were about to drink.

These devices, collectively dubbed emanators, were typically manufactured from carnitite ore, a primary ore of uranium.