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...Nose Quack...
...Schireson entered Manhattan in search of other wealthy clients with unsatisfactory noses. His hotel telephone went into action immediately, hopeful clients flocked. The News learned of his advent, ferreted out his past, found him to be a notorious quack with numerous jail and workhouse record and no New York State medical license, crowned him "King of Quacks," strewed its picture and news sections with the acrid headlines of a public-spirited exposé, "drove Schireson out of town...
...nose quack...
...James J. Walsh of Manhattan has written an amiable, but pointed account* of cures that have failed. It appears to be apropos of Cone. Dr. Walsh, far from ranking the Nancy druggist with the charlatans, credits him with some homely usefulness. America, he says, is the quack's happy home. Some of our best families were founded in quackery. He recalls the 50-year vogue of lithium water, then the hypnotic wave made classic in Trilby and finally dooms modern psychoanalysis to the same neglect into which both the previous obsessions have fallen. Cures associated with superstition are also...
...because it is claimed that the new sense will eliminate blindness. Since we are anxious to give credence, we can a least promise in a "suspension of disbelief" while awaiting the verdict of investigation. And it can be suggested that, even if the scientist should be excused as a quack, he may at least have the prospect of making a living in another way. For a certain boy, on whom a pig's eye was grafted recently, although unable to see clearly has entered a career on the vaudeville stage, and, with the pig as his co-partner, is "doing...