{"id":59,"date":"2020-03-21T17:34:10","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T17:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historytalks.info\/?p=59"},"modified":"2020-08-09T20:33:19","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T20:33:19","slug":"medical-quackery-fraud-and-flimflam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/talks\/medical-quackery-fraud-and-flimflam\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Quackery, Fraud and Flimflam"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/medical_quackery.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\r\nBizarre treatments and worthless patent medications abounded in the early 20th century.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You&#8217;ll be amazed and amused at some of history&#8217;s most outrageous hucksters,  including the doctor who transplanted goat testicles on thousands of men as a treatment for fading virility.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You&#8217;ll learn how nervous dispositions and cranky babies were calmed with popular preparations of alcohol and opium &#8211; all part of this fascinating and unusual medical story. <\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bizarre treatments and worthless patent medications abounded in the early<span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/talks\/medical-quackery-fraud-and-flimflam\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Medical Quackery, Fraud and Flimflam<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-special-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62,"href":"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/62"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}