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...happen in England. There, if a boy is caught, he must come before the court. That is bet ter, both for society and for the boy. Juvenile delinquency is a moral disease. In England the delinquent goes direct to the 'doctor.' Here you go to a quack . . . By the time the boy reaches the doctor, he's got double pneumonia...
...because they are outmoded are another 500 items. Mostly herbals, these included cypripedium (lady's slipper), once used as a sedative in hysteria and neuralgia; diabetes weed, and corn smut (derived from a fungus), which stimulated uterine contractions in childbirth. Carried over from edition to edition, of course: quack grass...
...Quack, Quack." Since the 1920s, most American schoolchildren have been taught to memorize the "appearance" of words, one after another, like Chinese characters, without reference to the sounds of the individual letters that make up each word. By this "word method," largely developed at teachers colleges and schools of education, children must plow through endless illustrated stories, in which words are repeated over and over. Sample text...
...Quack, quack," said the duck...
...studying the effects of quack cures, Dr. Horton and his colleagues got to know the local quacks themselves. One was a prosperous hill-country dairy farmer, another a housewife active in church work. A third was a mountain farmer who, Horton reported, could "quote more Bible than any man I ever saw . . . We told him he didn't know what a cancer was, and he didn't." When told that he had cancer himself, the mountain healer went to Duke for treatment...