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The quacks of old London
A narrative of the life and medical discoveries of Samuel Thomson
Healing: a doctor in search of a miracle
The great American fraud
Snake Oil, Hustlers and Hambones
An essay in favour of such public remedies, as are usually distinguished by the name of quack medicines
Quack medicine
Suckers
Bad Science
Weird Cures
Medical blunders
Quackery
Mystic Healers & Medicine Shows
Lessons from the history of medical delusions
The general state of medical and chirurgical practice, ancient and modern, exhibited
The cure for everything
Quackery Unmasked
Doctoring the novel
Medicina flagellata
The secrets of specialists
Anti-Lancet, or, the destructive practice of bleeding, &c., exposed and denounced
A plain statement of authenticated facts respecting the system for the prevention and removal of disease
Propaganda in the helping professions
Mark Twain and medicine
Do You Believe in Magic?
Anti-Lancet, or, The destructive practice of bleeding, &c., exposed and denounced
Trick or Treatment?
The black arts in medicine
The general state of medical and chirurgical practice exhibited; shewing them to be inadequate, ineffectual, absurd, and ridiculous ... And more rational ... methods of cure, by means of diet, simple medicines, etc., recommended. To which are added a great number of cases and cures
Consumer health: products and services
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