Word: quack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could keep him standing there talking continuously for three days, two nights, seven hours and twenty minutes, and he could devote only one minute to each drug, telling the arthritic how and when to use it." According to Northwestern's Mayers, the ludicrous abundance of ethical, proprietary or quack liniments also sold in drugstores to arthritics "is of no greater therapeutic value than would be a hot, wet towel to the afflicted joint." In contrast, conscientious doctors have some three dozen different drugs, four liniments to treat one of the three most stubborn, chronic U. S. diseases...
...died Dr. Albert Abrams, San Francisco millionaire whom officials of the American Medical Association called "the outstanding quack . . . the most polished charlatan ... of the century." Abrams made lasting contributions to the science of medicine by discovering that when the skin of the chest is irritated, the heart and lungs contract slightly. He also discovered that a clout on the spine may reduce a disabling bulge in the aorta. On the other hand, Abrams claimed without acceptable evidence that the human body was an electrochemical machine which produced certain vibrations when healthy, certain other vibrations when sick. He claimed that...
...became an apothecary, has left us a mordant account of his own class of 1780, thirty strong at graduation. One, a transfer from Yale to the senior class, was 'a good scholar and respectable'; a second, a transfer from Dartmouth, was 'a decent scholar, and rather more than a quack doctor'; and there were also three or four 'respectable characters' who had not been to other colleges. But there was a sad example of the over-bright freshman, who, with too much time on his hands, fell in with gamblers and 'became a dissipated sot', along with a classmate...
...long a prophet without honor in the profession. He lectured on the one tooth in America and England. He wrote a 835-page volume and made sound movies to show how the offending wisdom tooth can be quickly extracted without the usual danger of butchery. Once taken for a quack, so revolutionary was his discovery, he is now president of the American Dental Association, and owns the 1933 Newell Jenkins award for "outstanding contributions in dental science," for all of which Dr. Winter, likes wrestling, has been a persistent and wordy
Representative C. (for Charles) Jasper Bell of Kansas City made the chief argument for the investigation. Said he: "The late years of depression . . . have been a fertile field in which these quacks and charlatans, these false prophets of social reform have promoted their schemes and rackets representing vast sums in unholy profits at the expense of tens of thousands of good and faithful but deluded followers. . . . I cast no reflection whatsoever on Dr. Townsend as a medical doctor. . . . but, as a doctor of the ills which afflict our social order, he is a charlatan and a quack...