{"product_id":"strange-medicine-m-kienholz-9780595423378","title":"Strange Medicine","description":"\u003ci\u003eStrange Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e provides a believe-it-or-not journey around the world, exploring the use and misuse of medicinal plants, heavy metals, dyes, and chemicals. The author describes how physicians made their own pills, casts, and elixirs, and cared for their own leeches. \u003cp\u003e The section on birth defects may cause alarm, though Kienholz quotes statistics showing the small percentage of infants born with the problems described. Her list of known causes of defects, though incomplete, is equivalent to a U.S. surgeon general's warning on cigarettes-in that the pharmaceuticals listed should be avoided during pregnancy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chapters are devoted to cultic use of plant drugs, fraud, and the struggle against syphilis. The book is an expos  of failed experiments, but recognizes the contributions primitive medicine men made to modern medicine. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Those curious enough to tolerate a discussion of malarial parasites and parasitic worms-from the prolific tapeworm to the loa loa that visits the eyes of human hosts-will find the Hosts and Hostages chapter at times repulsive. But it serves as a warning on the dangers of traveling in countries that host these parasites. \u003ci\u003eStrange Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e is not for the queasy, but intended for the curious and those who wonder where it all began.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e M. Kienholz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 059542337X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780595423378\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e iUniverse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/07\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 316\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.02lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.71d","brand":"M. Kienholz","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44190559469823,"sku":"9780595423378","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_157e3721-e1f3-4095-85fa-4437ea0e21bc.jpg?v=1690871197","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/strange-medicine-m-kienholz-9780595423378","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}