Quacks and quackery. A remonstrance against the sanction given by the Government, the press, and the public, to the system of imposture and fraud practised on the ignorant and credulous in the quackeries of the day; with remarks on homoeopathy, hydropathy, mesmerism, mesmero-phrenology, etc / By a medical practitioner.

Date:
1844
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Credit: Quacks and quackery. A remonstrance against the sanction given by the Government, the press, and the public, to the system of imposture and fraud practised on the ignorant and credulous in the quackeries of the day; with remarks on homoeopathy, hydropathy, mesmerism, mesmero-phrenology, etc / By a medical practitioner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    himself, his aiders and abettors, or even from those he has imposed on, who, — like they whose curiosity misled their judgment in flock- ing to see a wonderful horse that was declared to have its head where its head should not he —or rather, where its “head’s antipodes’ ought to have been—will scarcely feel pleased to he reminded of the hoax. Some may regard such an attempt as an unjustifiable interference with the glorious liberty of the subject of these realms, by which he is entitled to have him- self cheated whenever and in what way soever he chooses. Others may declare it to be a malicious attack upon industry in its honest endeavours to profit by human nature’s weak points. Many (the implicated) will be ready to assert that it is a flagrant violation of the law of libel. Not a few, wittily to pronounce it only a rival trader s alarm for his own selfish interests. “ They say—What say they %—Let them say!” The evils of Quackery,* or Empiricism, are of greater magnitude than is generally * “ Quackery :—The practice of Physic without judg- ment or knowledge.”—Barclay.