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© 2014 by Erika Janik
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Janik, Erika.
Marketplace of the marvelous : the strange origins of modern medicine / by Erika Janik.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8070-2208-5 (cloth) —ISBN 978-0-8070-2209-2 (ebook) 1. Alternative medicine—History. 2. Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric—History. 3. Medicine—Specialties and specialists—History. 4. Medicine—History. I. Title.
R733.J33 2014
610—dc23 2013023296