MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2003021722
003 DLC
005 20140613114214.0
008 031001s2004 ncua b 001 0 eng
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020 $a0786416068 (softcover : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aR730$b.G23813 2004
082 00 $a615.8/56/0945$222
100 1 $aGambaccini, Piero.
240 10 $aMercanti della salute.$lEnglish
245 10 $aMountebanks and medicasters :$ba history of Italian charlatans from the Middle Ages to the present /$cPiero Gambaccini ; translated by Bettie Gage Lippitt ; foreword by Giorgio Cosmacini.
260 $aJefferson, N.C. :$bMcFarland & Co.,$c2004.
300 $aviii, 247 p. :$bill. ;$c23 cm.
500 $aOrignally published as: I mercanti della salute : le segrete virtù dell'imbroglio in medicina.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 233-242) and index.
505 0 $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.
650 0 $aQuacks and quackery$zItaly$xHistory.
650 0 $aMedicine$zItaly$xHistory.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip049/2003021722.html