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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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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    Laws, nor encouragement by her Eulers. Nor is this all; insult is indirectly added to neg- lect. England, as a State, ungratefully with- holds her countenance from the men to whose laborious exertion of talents and skill, the lives of her people are entrusted. She insults them, too, inasmuch as she openly supports a host of impostors, whom she virtually licences to kill, by discreditably drawing a revenue from the advertisement and sale of their “ pa- tent,” poisonous trash. For sake of the Income derivable from this disreputable source, tam- pering with human life is freely permitted to any one whom idleness or misconduct has un- fitted for honest employment, and who has only impudence enough to set himself conspicuously forth as the inventor, or discoverer, of some wonder-working, infallible, secret remedy for “ the various ills that flesh is heir to.” England’s Newspaper Press, that mighty engine for good, or for evil, declaring itself to he the advocate of virtue and the unspa- ring scourge of vice, yet heedful only to gain, and lavish indeed in the display of a much-boasted freedom, prostitutes its powerful