Doctors and doctors: some curious chapters in medical history and quackery.

  • Everitt, Graham.
Date:
1888
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Doctors and doctors: some curious chapters in medical history and quackery. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    PREFACE. ^^^LTHOUGH this little book is built upon different lines to those upon which Mr. Jeaffreson's amus- ing Book about Doctors is constructed, I think it necessary to state, that I have not seen that work since it was first published in 1860. If I have referred to it on one or, it may be, on two occasions, the reference has been taken from notes preserved since that time. Within the definition of Quackery I have included the so-called Miracles at Lourdes, and the clumsy tiicks of those who make a living by the pretence of calling spirits from the vasty deep. But it must not be supposed from this circumstance that I place both on the same platform. Both owe their origin to