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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    Quacks and Grafters =— By EX-OSTEOPATH ^== CHAPTER I. BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION. The Augean Stables of Therapeutics—The Remedy —Reason for Absence of Dignified Literary Style— Diploma Mills—All but Holy—Dr. Geo. H. Sim- mons' Opinion—American Medical Association Not Tyrannical—Therapeutics of To-day a Deplorable Muddle. IN WRITING this booklet I do not pose as a Her- cules come to cleanse the Augean stables of therapeutics. No power but that of a public con- science awakened to the prevalence of quackery and grafting in connection with doctoring can clear away the accumulated filth. Like Marc Antony, I claim neither wit, wisdom nor eloquence; but as a plain, blunt man I shall speak right on of the things I do know about quacks and grafters. In writing of Osteopathy I claim the right to speak as ''one having authority, for I have been on the ''inside. As to grafting in connection with the practice of medicine I take the viewpoint of a layman, who for years has carefully read the medical literature of the popular press, and of late years a number of representative professional journals, in an effort to get an intelligent conception of the theory and practice of therapeutics. [17]