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The funny side of physic, or, The mysteries of medicine : presenting the humorous and serious sides of medical practice : An exposé of medical humbugs, quacks, and charlatans in all ages and all countries / By A.D. Crabtre.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection R705 .C65 1872
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crabtre, Addison Darre.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine--Anecdotes.
- Medicine.
- Quacks and quackery.
- Caricatures as Topic.
- Medicine in Literature.
- Quackery.
- Medical Subjects:
- Caricatures as Topic.
- Medicine in Literature.
- Quackery.
- Genre:
- Anecdotes.
- Penn Provenance:
- Becker, Joseph M., Dr. (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 816 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Mysteries of medicine
- Place of Publication:
- Hartford : J.B. Burr & Hyde, 1872.
- Contents:
- Medical humbugs
- Apothecaries
- Patent medicine
- Manufactured doctors
- Women as physician
- Quacks
- Charlatans and impostors
- Anecdotes of physicains
- Fortune-tellers
- Eminent physicians and surgeons
- Ghosts and witches
- Medical superstitions
- Travelling doctors
- Scenes from every-day practice
- Doctors' fees and incomes
- Generosity and meanness
- Love and lovers
- Mind and matter
- Eccentricities
- Prescriptions remarksable and ridiculous
- Scenes from hospital and camp
- Gluttons and wine-bibbbers
- Doctor as poet, author and musician
- Adulterations
- All about tobacco
- Dress and address of physicians
- Medical facts and statistics
- Bleeders and butchers
- The omnium gatherum
- The other side
- "This is for your health"
- Health without medicine
- Consumption
- Accidents.
- Notes:
- Cited in: Cordasco. American 1820-1910, 70-0769.
- OCLC:
- 742069140
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