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A plain statement of authenticated facts respecting the system for the prevention and removal of disease

John St. John Long

1834

Propaganda in the helping professions

Eileen D. Gambrill

2012

Mark Twain and medicine

K. Patrick Ober

2003

Do You Believe in Magic?

Paul A. Offit

2013

Anti-Lancet, or, The destructive practice of bleeding, &c., exposed and denounced

Charles Rooke

1870

Trick or Treatment?

Edzard Ernst, Simon Singh

2008

The black arts in medicine

John D. Jackson

1880

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

Graham, James

1779

Consumer health: products and services

Jessie Helen Haag

1975

A treatise on Swaim's panacea; being a recent discovery for the cure of scrofula, or King's evil, mercurial disease, deep-seated syphilis, rheumatism and all disorders arising from a contaminated or impure state of the blood. With cases illustrating its success

Wm Swaim

1824

How I conquered cancer naturally

Eydie Mae Hunsberger

1975

A consumer's guide to "alternative medicine"

Kurt Butler

1992

The autobiography of a quack

S. Weir Mitchell

1900

Quacks

Roy Sydney Porter

2000

Guide to the American Medical Association Historical Health Fraud and Alternative Medicine Collection

Arthur Wayne Hafner

1992

A Brief History Of Bad Medicine

Ian Schott

2012

Real or not

Ho, Andy Ph.D.

2005

A quiet haven

Cherry, Charles L.

1989

Charlatan

Pope Brock

2008

Consumer health

Harold J. Cornacchia

1976

Junk Science

Dan Agin

2006

Chiropractic the Greatest Hoax of the Century? (Chiropractic, the Greatest Hoax of the Century?)

Ludmil Adam Chotkowski

2002

Junk science judo

Steven J. Milloy

2001

Nostrums and quackery

American Medical Association.

1912

Encyclopedia of hoaxes

Gordon Stein

1993

Chiropractic abuse

Preston Long

2013

Medical cautions

James Makittrick Adair

1787

The quacks of old London

C. J. S. Thompson

1928

A narrative of the life and medical discoveries of Samuel Thomson

Samuel Thomson

1825

Healing: a doctor in search of a miracle

William A. Nolen

1976

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