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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    that Dr. Grafter was an angel of mercy sent to deliver him from the awful fate of living where /'the worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched. I was told recently of a new tapeworm graft that makes the old one look crude and unscientific. This one actually brings a tapeworm from the intestines in every case, whether the person had one before the magic remedy was given or not. The graft is to have a near-worm manufactured of delicate rubber and compressed into a capsule. The patient swallows the capsule supposed to contain the worm destroyer. The rubber worm is not digested, and a strong physic soon produces it, to the great relief of the ''patient and the greater glory and profit of the shyster. What a wonderful age of invention and scientific discoveries! Another journal tells of a new gallstone cure that never fails to cause the stones to be passed even if they are big as walnuts. The graft in this is that the medicine consists of paraffine dissolved in colored oil. The paraffine does not digest, but collects in colored balls, which are passed by handfuls and are excellent imitations of the real things. How about tapeworms, gallstones and Osteopathy, do you ask? We heard about tapeworms and gallstones when we were in Osteopathic college. The one thing that was ground into us early and thoroughly was that Osteopathy was a complete sys- tem. No matter what any other system had done, we were to remember that Osteopathy could do that thing more surely and more scientifically. [121]