Stories
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The making of ‘Quacks’
How do you create a medical comedy that’s authentic and laugh-out-loud funny?
- In pictures
Tesla, quacks and violet rays
Imagine a device that can treat everything from baldness to gout. Too good to be true? Yes, and it was banned – but not before hundreds were hoodwinked.
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Graphic battles in pharmacy
James Morison’s campaign against the medical establishment inspired a wave of caricatures mocking his quack medicine.
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Rethinking the placebo effect
The placebo effect has long been harnessed for both legitimate and fraudulent use, but we’re only just discovering how and why our bodies respond positively to dummy drugs, as Anjuli Sharma reveals.
Catalogue
- Digital Images
- Online
Quack displaying his wares to a crowd.
Willem Buytenwegh- Books
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Quack doctor's speech Gentlemen, I Waltho Van Clauturbank, High German Doctor, ...
Van Clauturbank, Waltho.Date: 1760?]- Books
Quack medicine : a history of combating health fraud in twentieth-century America / Eric W. Boyle.
Boyle, Eric W.Date: [2013], ©2013- Books
Quack! : tales of medical fraud from the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices / by Bob McCoy.
McCoy, Bob, 1927-Date: [2000], ©2000- Books
Quack, quack, quack : the sellers of nostrums in prints, posters, ephemera & books : an exhibition on the frequently excessive & flamboyant seller of nostrums as shown in prints, posters, caricatures, books, pamphlets, advertisements & other graphic arts over the last five centuries / by William H. Helfand.
Helfand, William H.Date: 2002
