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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    cific, did nothing but give me a poor unsystematic massage. He was giving me a popular treatment. In many towns people have come to estimate the value of an Osteopathic treatment by its duration. People used to say to me, You don't treat as long as Dr. , who was here before you, and say it in a way indicating that they were hardly satisfied they had gotten their money's worth. Some of them would say: He treated me an hour for seventy-five cents. Does it seem funny to talk-of adjusting lesions on one person for an hour at a time, three times a week? My picture of incompetency and apparent success of incompetents, is not overdrawn. The other day I had a marked copy of a local paper from a town in California. It was a flattering write-up of an old classmate. The doctor's automobile was mentioned, and he had marked with a cross a fine auto shown in a picture of the city garage. This fellow had been considered by all the Simple Simon of the class, in- ferior in almost every attribute of true manliness, yet now he flourishes as one of those of our class to whose success the school can point with pride. It is interesting to read the long list of changes of location among Osteopaths, yet between the lines there is a sad story that may be read. How often I have followed these changes. First, Doctor Blank has located in Philadelphia, with twenty-five patients for the first month and rapidly growing practice. A year or so after another item tells that Doctor Blank has located in San Francisco with bright prospects. Then Doctor Blank has returned to Missouri on ac- [107]