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    Quacks and Grafters
    Quacks and Grafters
    Quacks and Grafters
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      Quacks and Grafters - Archive Classics

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Quacks and Grafters, by Unknown

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Quacks and Grafters

      Author: Unknown

      Release Date: February 21, 2012 [EBook #38929]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK QUACKS AND GRAFTERS ***

      Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at

      http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images

      generously made available by The Internet Archive.)

      QUACKS and

      GRAFTERS

      By EX-OSTEOPATH

      BEING AN EXPOSÉ OF THE STATE OF

      THERAPEUTICS AT THE PRESENT TIME,

      WITH SOME REASONS WHY SUCH

      GRAFTERS FLOURISH, AND SUG-

      GESTIONS TO REMEDY THE

      DEPLORABLE MUDDLE

      Published in the Year 1908 by

      The Cincinnati Medical Book Company

      Cincinnati Ohio

      Copyrighted, 1908,

      By The Cincinnati Medical Book Co.

      The Lancet-Clinic Press,

      Cincinnati, Ohio.

      To the

      GREAT AMERICAN PUBLIC

      is Dedicated

      This Book, With Every

      Confidence in its Proverbial Common Sense and

      Discrimination, and With the Hope of

      Having Added a Mite Toward Greater

      and Better Things in the

      Art of Aesculapius.

      PREFACE.

      There has been but one other period in the history of medicine when so many systems of the healing art were in vogue. In the seventeenth century, during the Reform Period, following the many epoch-making discoveries, as the blood and lymph circulation; when alchemy was abandoned and chemistry became a science; when Galileo regenerated physics, and zoology and botany were largely extended; when Newton enunciated the laws of gravitation; when cinchona bark, the great febrifuge, was introduced into Europe, and the cell doctrine was founded by Hooke, Malpighi and Grew, the old Hippocratic, Galenic and Arabic systems of medicine were undermined. In that transition period, when the medical profession was trying to adjust its practice with the many new theories, its authoritative voice was lost, and in the struggle for something tangible, innumerable new systems sprang up.

      Four systems stood out most prominently—the pietistically colored Paracelsism of Von Helmont, with its sal, sulphur and mercury; the chemical system of Sylvius and Willis, with its acid and alkali theory of cause and cure of disease; the iatro-chemical system, with its fermentation theory; and the iatro-physical system, which contended that health was dependent upon proper adjustment of physical and mechanical arrangements of the body. The old humoral theory of Galen had its adherents, influencing all of the newer systems. And suggestive therapeutics was rampant in most grotesque and fanciful forms. Witchcraft, superstition and cabalism were fostered even at the various European courts. As Roswell Park says in his History of Medicine: With delightful satire Harvey divided the physicians of the day into six classes—the Ferrea, Asinaria, Jesuitica, Aquaria, Laniaria and Stercoraria—according as their favorite systems of treatment were the administration of iron, asses’ milk, cinchona, mineral water, venesection or purgatives.

      That history repeats itself is a truism well illustrated in medicine to-day. The new cellular pathology, founded by Virchow and Cohnheim and elaborated by innumerable men since; the discovery of parasitism and the germ theory by Davaine, Pasteur and Koch; antisepsis by Lister; the introduction of anesthesia by Morton, Simpson and Koller; the application of more exact methods in diagnosis by Skoda and others, and many other innovations and discoveries have revolutionized medicine in the nineteenth century. The transition period of to-day is very analogous to that of the seventeenth century.

      Suggestive therapeutics has its advocates in the Emmanuel movement, Lourdes water, Christian Science, New Thought, faith cure and psycho-therapy. The uric acid theory is a curious survival of the old chemical system. The iatro-chemical system is the prototype of Metchnikoff’s theory of longevity. And, strange to relate, despite the claims of wonderful discovery by A. T. Still and D. D. Palmer, the iatro-physical system of the seventeenth century was more complete as a guide to healing than is Osteopathy and Chiropractics to-day. Verily, there is nothing novel under the solar rays.

      That graft in surgery and shystering in internal medicine exists no one in the medical profession denies. It has come so insidiously that the profession itself was taken unawares. However, that sweeping denunciation of the entire profession should follow is unwarranted. Every other profession and calling has its black sheep, and it is the duty of the leaders in each to eliminate them. Elimination, however, cannot come entirely from within. The public has its share of responsibility and duty to perform, and the sooner this is realized, the better for all concerned.

      To aid in the work of obtaining better things in therapeutics, the establishment and extension of a national bureau or department of health is imperative. Any effort along this line will hasten the day of rational healing. Preventive medicine will then gradually supplant the present haphazard system of palliation and cure.

      And education is the watchword of the day!

      G. Strohbach, M.D.

      Cincinnati, Ohio, 1908.

      PUBLISHERS’ NOTE.

      Though written in a satirical vein, this book is intended as a warning to the medical profession and the public alike. And, while amusing, the wealth of information and comment on certain abuses in the healing art should lead to serious consideration. This book is published without bias or prejudice toward any school of medicine or system of therapeutics as such. But that quackery and graft are rampant among those who pose as healers has become so apparent that we believe every influence to expose and weed out the pretenders is timely.

      The author is an Osteopath who abandoned the practice of Osteopathy after a few years’ earnest endeavor, convinced of the untenable position of those professing the practice of this art. He returned to the more congenial profession of teaching. For obvious reasons he publishes this book under a nom de plume. He is abundantly fortified with facts to substantiate his criticism.

      That his effort may be of some service in clarifying the situation and lead to better therapeutics in the near future, is the sincere hope of

      The Publishers.

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