Magic, medicine & quackery

explores the jungle of folk medicine where the healing arts began.the fantastic world of the village wise men,faith healing priests and empiries of the middle ages.discusses the great age of quackery of the 18th century with its rampant exploitation of human gullibility by the most audicious quacks in history and continues with the entertaining street quacks of a generation ago and the fringe medicine men of the 20th century britain and america