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Downtown Bend: Know Heritage - Quackery, the Heritage of Medicine

Quackery Event Type: Adult Program
Age Group(s): Adult
Date: 5/7/2018
Start Time: 6:00 PM
End Time: 7:00 PM
Description:
 Nathan Pedersen presents on the worst ways to cure anything.

Nathan Pedersen presents on the worst ways to cure anything. Quackery is a humorous book that delves into some of the wacky but true ways that humans have looked to cure their ills. Leeches, mercury, strychnine, and lobotomies are a few of the topics that explore what lengths society has gone in the search for health.




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Library: Downtown Bend Public Library
Location: Brooks Room
Contact: Paige M. Ferro
Contact Number: 541-312-1063
Presenter: Nate Pedersen