000453305 000__ 02032cam\a22003374a\4500 000453305 001__ 453305 000453305 005__ 20210513160001.0 000453305 008__ 031001s2004\\\\ncua\\\\\b\\\\001\0\eng\\ 000453305 010__ $$a 2003021722 000453305 020__ $$a9780786416066 (pbk. : alk. paper) 000453305 020__ $$a0786416068 (pbk. : alk. paper) 000453305 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocm53145513 000453305 035__ $$a453305 000453305 040__ $$aDLC$$beng$$cDLC$$dYDX$$dNLM$$dUKM$$dBAKER$$dBTCTA$$dYDXCP$$dOCLCQ$$dBDX$$dIG#$$dOCLCO 000453305 0411_ $$aeng$$hita 000453305 042__ $$apcc 000453305 043__ $$ae-it--- 000453305 049__ $$aISEA 000453305 05000 $$aR730$$b.G23813 2004 000453305 08200 $$a615.8/56/0945$$222 000453305 1001_ $$aGambaccini, Piero. 000453305 24010 $$aMercanti della salute.$$lEnglish 000453305 24510 $$aMountebanks and medicasters :$$ba history of Italian charlatans from the Middle Ages to the present /$$cPiero Gambaccini ; translated by Bettie Gage Lippitt ; foreword by Giorgio Cosmacini. 000453305 260__ $$aJefferson, N.C. :$$bMcFarland & Co.,$$c2004. 000453305 300__ $$aviii, 247 p. :$$bill. ;$$c23 cm. 000453305 500__ $$aOriginally published as: I mercanti della salute : le segrete virtù dell'imbroglio in medicina. 000453305 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 233-242) and index. 000453305 5050_ $$aPeople 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. 000453305 650_0 $$aQuacks and quackery$$zItaly$$xHistory. 000453305 650_0 $$aMedicine$$zItaly$$xHistory. 000453305 85200 $$bgen$$hR730$$i.G23813$$i2004 000453305 85641 $$3Table of contents$$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip049/2003021722.html 000453305 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:453305$$pGLOBAL_SET 000453305 980__ $$aBIB 000453305 980__ $$aBOOK