Word: quack
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...rich quick, but for fear of the poorhouse he ruined his career and destroyed his wife. When he made a hit in a cheap meller, he played nothing else for a decade. And when his wife had a pain one night, he sent her to a cheap quack who cynically put the poor girl on morphine...
...nonadult, the disenfranchised, the mutes"-had tried to suppress his work as "blasphemy." Penniless, he settled in Paris with one summer suit to his name, for summer or winter wear. His second marriage was going badly, confirming his obsessive distrust of women who, he said, "admire swindlers, quack dentists, braggadocios of literature, peddlers of wooden spoons-everything mediocre." He himself was close to madness -a shabby, shuffling figure who dabbled in alchemy and black magic and once nearly committed suicide. He was addicted to absinthe, but he had one outlet that relieved him even more effectively than alcohol, Strindberg...
...unorthodox disciple of Freud, Goddeck is today written off as a quack whose successful cures so called organic diseases by a combination of diet, massage, and psychoanalysis have been forgotten, even though his theories foreshadowed current advances in psychosomatic medicine...
...Impoundment of quack remedies offered through the mails. Postmaster General J. Edward Day said he was planning to use this attack on a medical fraud when he is confident his case is so strong that the courts will uphold...
...part, the medical profession itself has to shoulder some of the blame. Licensed M.D.s have written recent books promoting quack remedies. Several M.D.s were among the promoters of the seawater panaceas. And, Commissioner Larrick pointed out, there is always "the professional research quack-the M.D. who specializes in arranging for 'tailored studies' " of questionable cures-in a word, "rigged research...