Word: quacking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Septuagenarian Vic Shaw to tell the intimate story of her life as one of Chicago's best-known madams. (She sneeringly told Norma she was such a "little cracker you wouldn't be no good in a house.") Last summer Norma went after Chicago's quack doctors and had everything from electric vibrators to "atom water" prescribed for her imaginary ailments ; one of her "doctors" is now awaiting trial. That was the only time she was frightened. Said she: "Those places were horrible . . . even the injection needles were dirty...
...marriages broke up quickly. He wrote: "All women hate Buddhas, maltreat, disturb, humiliate, annoy them, with the hatred of inferiors, because they themselves can never become Buddhas. On the other hand they have an instinctive sympathy for servants, male and female, beggars, dogs, especially mangy ones. They admire swindlers, quack dentists, braggadocios of literature [and] pedlars of wooden spoons...
...emphasis on manipulation exposed osteopathy* to ridicule. Medical history was full of quack bonesetters, and Still's disciples were lumped with them. Orthodox doctors agitated for state laws to curb the osteopaths. Chiropractors, with less formal education, came along and won a name as spine manipulators, and thus helped bring osteopathy into disrepute by association.. Finally, orthodox M.D s had developed a bone science of their own called it orthopedics, and left the osteopaths high...
Self-conscious adolescents and worried parents know that a bad case of acne can cause more misery than many a more painful ailment; it can also end in serious psychological damage. Youthful victims are easy prey to misconceptions about acne, sometimes worry themselves into trying quack cures...
...wife consulted another quack because she was not getting along with her husband. The "consultant" advised sexual relations with another man, and the marriage broke...