MDDM18: Quack Physicians

[Dave Monroe]

"There, over the Evening, he will find, among the
Clientele, German Enthusiasts, Quack Physicians,
Land-Surveyors, Iron-Prospectors, and Watch-Thieves
who know how to draw a Half-Hunter from one Pocket
into another with the swiftness of a Lodestone
clapping a Needle to its Influence." (M&D, Ch. 30, p.
298)

All show, no tell here ...

http://www.tcd.ie/Physics/Schools/what/materials/magnetism/Images/quacks.jpg

http://www.printsgeorge.com/PrintsGeorgeGIFs/healthquacks2.gif

Reproduced as well in ...

Altick, Richard.  The Shows of London.
   Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1978.  p. 83.

But do see the texts those images are embedded in ...

http://www.printsgeorge.com/ArtEccles_TempleofHealth2.htm

http://www.tcd.ie/Physics/Schools/what/materials/magnetism/three.html

And see as well ...

Porter, Roy.  Health for Sale: Quackery in England,
   1660-1850.  New York: St. Martin's, 1989.

__________.  Quacks: Fakers and Charlatans
   in English Medicine.  London: Tempus, 2000.

By the way, here's a real find, though beware the
loading time if you've a slower connection ...

http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/SciMedOrg/portereighteenthcentury.pdf

A quick one, then I'm ...








http://www.printsgeorge.com/ArtEccles_TempleofHealth2.htm

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