Some #earlymodern remedies.
A set of #songs and #choruses from the Masque of #Mountebanks, where quack doctors vie with each other to sell cures every conceivable ailment...
This #Jacobean#masque was performed twice in London in 1618. First at #GraysInn, and then at the Banqueting House in Whitehall for King James I.
Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
Looking back with fascination, horror, and not a little dash of dark, knowing humor, Quackery recounts the lively, at times unbelievable, history of medical misfires and malpractices.
the journals #Aniki: Revista Portuguesa da Imagem em Movimento and #HoST - Journal of History of Science and Technology, both published with the support of the IHC, have been accepted for indexing by the #Scopus platform! 🥳🎊