Revelations of quacks and quackery / a series of letters by 'Detector'.

  • Courtenay, Francis Burdett, 1811-1886
Date:
1885
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Credit: Revelations of quacks and quackery / a series of letters by 'Detector'. 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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    they diminished their annual receipts by many thou- sands. It is to be deeply regretted that the majority of the Provincial Press have not imitated them in this noble sacrifice of their own pecuniary interests to the welfare of their readers and the public generally. Had they done so, the whole tribe of quacks whom they now aid and abet would have been things of the past. Some years ago in the Students' Journal and Hospital Gazette there appeared a very able article on this subject, which I now append. It says all that I would say on the subject in a much more eloquent form than I could. LAY NEWSPAPERS AND QUACK ADVERTISEMENTS. [From the Students Journal,'' Saturday, June 19, 1875.] Our attention is constantly being directed by provincial correspondents to the unblushing insertion, by country news- papers, of the advertisements of those quacks who pretend to have made diseases of the organs of generation a special study. We have again and again referred to this scandalous abuse of the public press, and have often mentioned by name some of the newspapers whose advertisement columns are permitted to be so prostituted, but we fear with but little good. In one case only has the editor of a provincial newspaper had the sense of honour and courage to thank us for directing attention to the disgraceful use that was being made of his columns, and to assure us that the objectionabe advertise- ments should not be repeated, In other cases the editors have either not noticed our animadversions, or have excused their