Quacks and grafters / by Ex-osteopath; being an exposé of the state of therapeutics at the present time, with some reasons why such grafters flourish, and suggestions to remedy the deplorable muddle.

Date:
1908
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Credit: Quacks and grafters / by Ex-osteopath; being an exposé of the state of therapeutics at the present time, with some reasons why such grafters flourish, and suggestions to remedy the deplorable muddle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    upon him) did we know that you are so dull of intel- lect that it takes you years to fix in your minds that if you had a bad case of torticollis not to touch it but to give a man morphine. And how pleased Osteopaths are to learn from this scholar that the Osteopath can take hold of a case of torticollis, and with his vast and we might say perfect knowledge of anatomy inhibit the nerves and have the man cured in five minutes. We were glad to learn this great truth from this learned ex- M.D., as we never should have known, otherwise, that Osteopathy is so potent. I have had cases of torticollis in my practice, and thought I had done well if after a half hour of hard work massaging contracted muscles I had benefited the case. And note the relevancy of these questions, Would not the medical man be angry? Would he not feel like wiping off the earth all the Osteopaths ? Gen- tlemen, can you explain your ex-brother's meaning here? Surely you are not all so hard-hearted that you vv^ould be angry because a poor wry-necked fel- low had been cured in five minutes. To be serious, I ask you to think of the finest anatomists in the world doing their original re- search work in the dissecting-room under the direc- tion of a man of the scholarly attainments indicated by the composition and thought of the above article. Do you see now how Osteopaths get a vast and per- fect knowledge of anatomy? Do you suppose that the law of the survival of [105]