I personally have always been fascinated with all of the weird and wacky ways we've tried to cure all sort of diseases with, and as such, this book was perfectly up my alley. Definitely not for the faint of heart and stomach (some chapters get really really gross and there's a lot of descriptions of throwing up so if that's something you struggle with, maybe steer clear of this one), but it has so many little fascinating tid-bits and fun facts to bring to parties. Small nit-picks: it gets a little repetitive towards the end (which kinda made it great for my short train commute to work), and it's very concerned with treatments from the past and not so much stuff that still survives to the modern day (which, to be fair, the authors mention in the introduction, and makes it so it isn't immediately straight outdated after COVID hit). Overall this was a great read and I really enjoyed it! If you like reading about the grosser parts of history or knowing about alternative medicine, and you aren't deterred by graphic descriptions of old-timey surgery/the myriad of ways people used to expel all sorts of fluids from their bodies, you will like this book too!