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
- Books
About this work
Publication/Creation
New York : The Grolier Club, 2002.
Physical description
252 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 27 cm
Contributors
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-243) and index.
Contents
Preface -- On quackery -- The quack -- Identifying quacks -- Common traits -- Regulars vs. irregulars -- Drugs on the market -- Advertising -- Growth & decline -- The persistence of quackery -- The itinerant quack -- The ways of the quack -- Systems -- Morison's Pills -- Vin Mariani -- Anatomical museums & medicine shows -- Selling sex cures -- Addiction & electricity cures -- Quacks in the arts -- The evils of quackery.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineCBQ /HELOpen shelves
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ISBN
- 0910672407