This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...system, but for one thing. It can show real cures, both undeniable and numerous, in spite of the vast number that may not bear scrutiny. This the physician cannot, alas! deny, though he Quack may deplore it. After allowing full discount for arenot" forged and false testimonials (which are not so "rt78 ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...system, but for one thing. It can show real cures, both undeniable and numerous, in spite of the vast number that may not bear scrutiny. This the physician cannot, alas! deny, though he Quack may deplore it. After allowing full discount for arenot" forged and false testimonials (which are not so "rt78 numerous as supposed), for purely imaginary diseases and the credulity of mankind, and even for the lesser functional disorders, there remains behind a large residuum that cannot by any ingenuity be explained away. At any rate, the public believes it has suffered from some disease, say, rheumatism, for which, in the ordinary course and the absence of the quack, it would have gone to the nearest doctor; with the result of a possible more or less tardy cure, and the certainty of a considerable bill. Whereas now, the purchase for 7&. or Is. l d. of a small bottle of something in a wrapper black with testimonials has already given relief, maybe even before it has been taken, on the mere reading of the wonderful cures effected. The ignorant charlatan may thus effect with his shallow mysteries what a great physician cannot do with his science, because wonder and awe have a greater therapeutic power than respect. In this case, of course, the remedies used on both sides are regarded as inert; and yet we believe it is true that many of our most useful medicines have been discovered by quacks. Now it is quite possible that no one is more surprised as well as pleased at the cures than the quack vendor of the same; and it is not for him to deny what he cannot account for, as the doctor is often tempted to do, because his interest is to magnify cures, which he promptly does. Pseudo-It is therefore doubtless true that, in spite of all...
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Hardcover. Octavo. xviii + 312pp. Green cloth gilt-lettered on spine. Index & bibliography. Page-edges browned, bottom of spine slightly chafed, bumps to corners of boards, offsetting to endpapers, otherwise a solid, internally-clean VG copy (no dust jacket).
