it’s been some years since i’ve read this so my review is based on what i remember. this book takes an often meandering, comedic route on delivering the information in a way that can be redundant if you tried to sit down and read it all in one go. i read this section at a time over several months and it was such a fun take on quackery when it got to that stage of history. it wasn’t perfect by any means, but as a introductory look at frontier medicine it served its purpose well. its best read a chapter or two at a time over a prolonged period.