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...restless. Example: a man of 53 became impatient during a two-week stint of laboratory analysis, went to a quack who gave him "treatment" within the hour. "I got 'antsy.' You know, when you've got cancer, every minute counts...
...news of Christine's treatment by Danish surgeons, Charles took ship for Copenhagen. He found that the Danish Ministry of Justice had ordered doctors not to perform an emasculating operation on any more foreigners. Charles told his troubles to a helpful taxicab driver, who took him to a quack. For a sizable fee, the quack performed a crude operation, using a kitchen table for an operating table...
Last week, in the sleepy Bavarian town of Freiburg, the city fathers unveiled a three-foot marble statue of a drake, neck arched to the sky and bill at full quack...
...great wars have shaken faith in the providential order on earth, and partly also because of the development of science, which teaches strange new doctrines in physiology and psychology, tending to weaken individual responsibility ... I believe that a great deal of nonsense is talked about this kind of quack psychology, and that we should return to common sense, which is nothing else than a requirement that the rules of conduct should be based upon the universal moral...
When defeat came closer & closer, Hitler's audience dwindled to his female secretaries, his hard-drinking adjutant, his quack doctor and his vegetarian cook. They had heard his theories many times before and were bored, but they sat helplessly drowsing into the morning, a captive audience. Only Eva Braun, Hitler's mistress, ever did anything about it. She would pointedly ask the Führer the time. Hitler usually took the hint and closed the window on the refuse-laden backyard of his mind...