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.
Gambaccini, Piero.
2004
R730 .G23813 2004 (Mapit)
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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.
Uniform Title Mercanti della salute. English
ISBN 9780786416066 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0786416068 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Publication Details Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., 2004.
Language English
Description viii, 247 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Call Number R730 .G23813 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification 615.8/56/0945
Note Originally published as: I mercanti della salute : le segrete virtù dell'imbroglio in medicina.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-242) and index.
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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.

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