Thoughts from Lileks on web advertising, the history of miracle cures, and China.
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For a long time quacks prescribed all sort of “cures” for ailments.
The first emperor of China in the Qin dinasty, Shi Huang Di, sought the elixir of immortality. Some quacks gave him medicine with mercury and he died that way.
For a long time quacks prescribed all sort of “cures” for ailments.
The first emperor of China in the Qin dinasty, Shi Huang Di, sought the elixir of immortality. Some quacks gave him medicine with mercury and he died that way.