Cancer cures and cancer curers / by T. Spencer Wells.

  • Wells, Spencer, 1818-1897.
Date:
1860
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Credit: Cancer cures and cancer curers / by T. Spencer Wells. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    with its due reward in our courts of justice. In cases when death is greatly accelerated, an indict- ment for manslaughter might be applied with success. But as the Times said, when commenting on the “ handy method ” they have in France of dealing with the more notorious and mischievous quacks, “ In all cases where agents have been employed productive of suffering without possible beneficial result, and that by persons who neither by education nor practice have a right to style themselves pro- fessors of the medical art, a sterner punishment might be inflicted with advantage.”—Times, January 14, 1860. Perhaps events may soon bring about some such salutary enactment as this without encroaching on public or individual liberty. In the mean time, exposure of his true character, of his system of payment, of the falsehood of his bold promises and his pretended cures, is the only punishment that can be inflicted upon the Cancer Curer. London : Reed and Pardon, Printers, Paternoster-row,