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Quackery : medical minstrels performing for the benefit of their former patients : no other dead-heads admitted.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Quacks and quackery in art.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : [Puck], 1879.
- Notes:
- Collection reference: 2004-99-37
- From 'Puck' (New York, November 19, 1879).
- In a biting satire on the excessive promotion and irresponsible formulation of many proprietary medicines, Keppler leaves no group untouched, attacking regular physicians - the allopaths - and many practitioners of alternative systems: homeopaths, eclectics, vegetarians, phlebotomists, hydropaths, and even spirit mediums and Turkish bathers. The cartoonist takes pains to single out arsenic, calomel, laudanum, quinine, and morphine, placing them in the same league as quack medicines.
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