Category: Health & Medicine
The Commercial Spirit--Commercialism in Medicine--Stock Company Medical Colleges--Graft in Medicines, Drugs and Nostrums--Encyclopedia Graft--"Get-Rich-Quick" Propositions--Paradoxes in Character of Shysters--Money Madness--Professional Failurephobia--The Fortunate Few and the...
The Commercial Spirit--Commercialism in Medicine--Stock Company Medical Colleges--Graft in Medicines, Drugs and Nostrums--Encyclopedia Graft--"Get-Rich-Quick" Propositions--Para...
3. CHAPTER III--WHY QUACKS FLOURISH 37American Public Generally Intelligent--But Densely Ignorant in Important Particulars--Cotton Mather and Witchcraft--A.B.s, A.M.s, M.D.s and Ph.D.s Espousing Christian Science, C...
4. CHAPTER IV--TURBID THERAPEUTICS 515. CHAPTER V--THE EXPERT WITNESS AND PROPRIETARY MEDICINES 57The "Great Nerve Specialist"--The Professional Witness a Jonah--The "Railway Spine"--Is it Lack of Fairness and Honesty or Lack of Skill and Learning?--Destruction of Fine Herds...
6. CHAPTER VI--FAITH CURE AND GRAFT IN SURGERY 62Suggestive Therapeutics Chief Stock in Trade--Advice of a Medical College President--Disease Prevention Rather than Cure--Hygienic Living--The Medical Pretender--"Dangerous Diag...
7. CHAPTER VII--SOME DEFINITIONS AND HISTORIES 79Romantic Story of Osteopathy's Origin--An Asthma Cure--Headache Cured by Plowlines--Log Rolling to Relieve Dysentery--Osteopathy is Drugless Healing--Osteopathy is Manual Treatm...
8. CHAPTER VIII--THE OSTEOPATHIC PROPAGANDA 88Wonderful Growth Claimed to Prove Merit--Osteopathy is Rational Physio-Therapy--Growth is in Exact Proportion to Advertising Received--Booklets and Journals for Gratuitous Distr...
9. CHAPTER IX--THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF OSTEOPATHY 97Infallible, Touch-the-Button System that Always Cured--Indefinite Movements and Manipulations--Wealth of Undeveloped Scientific Facts--Osteopaths Taking M.D. Course--The Standpa...
10. CHAPTER X--OSTEOPATHY AS RELATED TO SOME NOTORIOUS FAKES 111Sure Shot Rheumatism Cure--Regular Practitioner's Discomfiture--Medicines Alone Failed to Cure Rheumatism--Osteopathy Relieves Rheumatic and Neuralgic Pains--"Move Things"--"Pop...
11. CHAPTER XI--TAPEWORMS AND GALLSTONES 11912. CHAPTER I.The Augean Stables of Therapeutics--The Remedy--Reason for Absence of Dignified Literary Style--Diploma Mills--"All but Holy"--Dr. Geo. H. Simmons' Opinion--American Medical Ass...
13. CHAPTER II.The Commercial Spirit--Commercialism in Medicine--Stock Company Medical Colleges--Graft in Medicines, Drugs and Nostrums--Encyclopedia Graft--"Get-Rich-Quick" Propositions--Para...
14. CHAPTER III.American Public Generally Intelligent, but Densely Ignorant in Important Particulars--Cotton Mather and Witchcraft--A.B.'s, A.M.'s, M.D.'s and Ph.D.'s Espousing Christian Scienc...
15. CHAPTER IV.To be convinced that therapeutics are turbid, note the increasing numbers of diametrically opposed schools springing up and claiming to advocate the only true system of healing....
16. CHAPTER V.The "Great Nerve Specialist"--The Professional Witness a Jonah--The "Railway Spine"--Is it Lack of Fairness and Honesty or Lack of Skill and Learning?--Destruction of Fine Herds...
17. CHAPTER VI.Suggestive Therapeutics Chief Stock in Trade--Advice of a Medical College President--Disease Prevention Rather than Cure--Hygienic Living--The Medical Pretender--"Dangerous Diag...
18. CHAPTER VII.Romantic Story of Osteopathy's Origin--An Asthma Cure--Headache Cured by Plowlines--Log Rolling to Relieve Dysentery--Osteopathy is Drugless Healing--Osteopathy is Manual Treatm...
19. CHAPTER VIII.Wonderful Growth Claimed to Prove Merit--Osteopathy is Rational Physio-Therapy--Growth is in Exact Proportion to Advertising Received--Booklets and Journals for Gratuitous Distr...
20. CHAPTER IX.Infallible, Touch-the-Button System that Always Cured--Indefinite Movements and Manipulations--Wealth of Undeveloped Scientific Facts--Osteopaths Taking M.D. Course--The Standpa...
21. CHAPTER X.Sure Shot Rheumatism Cure--Regular Practitioner's Discomfiture--Medicines Alone Failed to Cure Rheumatism--Osteopathy Relieves Rheumatic and Neuralgic Pains--"Move Things"--"Pop...
22. CHAPTER XI.There is another trump card the traveling medical grafter plays, which wins about as well as the guaranteed rheumatism cure, namely, the tapeworm fraud. Last summer I heard a pl...