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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    count of his wife's health, and located in , where he has our best wishes for success. Their career reminds us of Goldsmith's lines: As the hare whom horn and hounds pursue Pants to the place from whence at first he flew. There has been many a tragic scene enacted upon the Osteopathic stage, but the curtain has not been raised for the public to behold them. How many- timid old maids, after saving a few hundred dollars from wages received for teaching school, have been persuaded that they could learn Osteopathy while their shattered nerves were repaired and they were made young and beautiful once more by a course of treatment in the clinics of the school. Then they would be ready to go out to occupy a place of dignity and honor, and treat ten to thirty patients per month at twenty-five dollars per patient. Gentlemen of the medical profession, from what you know of the aggressive spirit that it takes to suc- ceed in professional life to-day (to say nothing of the physical strength required in the practice of Oste- opathy), what per cent, of these timid old maids do you suppose have ''panted to the place from whence at first they flew, after leaving their pitiful little sav- ings with the benefactors of humanity who were devoting their splendid talents to the cause of Oste- opathy ? If any one doubts that some Osteopathic schools are conducted from other than philanthropic motives, let him read what the Osteopathic Physician said of tl08]