Quacks and quackery. A remonstrance against the sanction given by the Government, the press, and the public, to the system of imposture and fraud practised on the ignorant and credulous in the quackeries of the day; with remarks on homoeopathy, hydropathy, mesmerism, mesmero-phrenology, etc / By a medical practitioner.

Date:
1844
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Quacks and quackery. A remonstrance against the sanction given by the Government, the press, and the public, to the system of imposture and fraud practised on the ignorant and credulous in the quackeries of the day; with remarks on homoeopathy, hydropathy, mesmerism, mesmero-phrenology, etc / By a medical practitioner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. PAGE. Evils of Quackery, . 2 Medical Profession contemned only in England, 5 Quackery openly supported by England’s Government, Newspaper Press, and Public, 6 England tbe Paradise of Quacks, foreign and domestic, 9 English Credulity—English Gullibility, 11 Charms of Quackery, 13 A Nobleman’s Daughter consigned to a Bone-Doctor, for treatment, 15 Facilities afforded to Quacks, 17 Universal Remedies, 19 “ Mr. Snook” and “ Dr. Coffin,”—“ What’s in a name V 20 “ Universal Vegetable” or Gamboge Pills, 22 Charlatan and Mountebank, 23 “College of Health” and its learned functionaries in the Shaving, Grocery, Petty Stationery, and Nothing- else-to-do Lines, 24 “ All-sufficient Medicine,” 25 “ Old Parr’s Life-Pill,” 26 Rev. John Wesley’s “Astonishing Pill,” 27 “ Chinese Pills,” 28