It wasn t too long ago that people tried all sorts of things to helpsick people feel better. They tried wild thingslike drinking a glass full of millipedes or putting some mustard on one's head. Some of the cures worked, and some of them well, let s just say that millipedes, living or dead, are t meant to be ingested.Carlyn Beccia takes readers on a colorful and funny medical mysterytour todiscover that while times may have changed, many of today s most reliable cure-alls have their roots in some very peculiar practices, and so relevant connections can be drawn from whatthey did then to whatwe do w.