Magic,Medicine and Quackery

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Magic,Medicine & Quackery

by Eric Maple

U.K. First Edition,First Printing

Cloth Hardcover

Published by Robert Hale,London,,1968

1968 First Published in Great Britain Statement is Present on the Copyright Page/No Others

Very Good Book/No Dustjacket

Contents:

  1. The Roots of Quackery

  2. Ancient Light

  3. Holy Quackery

  4. The Quacks’ Charter

  5. Doctor versus Devil

  6. The Great Age of Quackery

  7. Quacks,Cranks,and Empirics

  8. Adapt,Adopt,or Perish

  9. Old Medicine in New Bottles

Bibliography

Illustrations:

  1. A White Witch With Her Patients From an Engraving after Peter Breughel the Younger,1564-1637

  2. A Medical Consultation at the Highest Level. From Holbein’s Dance of Death

  3. Paracelsus,Magician,Scientist and Quack. From a Woodcut by August Hirchvogel

  4. Simon Forman: The Darker Side of Medicine Often Involved Poisoning and Witchcraft. From Caulfield’s Remarkable Portraits,1794

  5. Greatrakes the Stroker,a Seventeenth Century Fringe Medicine man. From a Print Published in 1794 and Included in A Collection of Four Hundred Portraits

  6. Andrew Boorde: The Merry Andrew Who Took Medicine to the People. From an Engraving of a Portrait by Holbein

  7. Hans Buling,Mountebank,with His Medical Auxiliary. Included in A Collection of Four Hundred Portraits

  8. Joe Haines,The Mock Mountebank Who Parodied the Quacks. From Chamber’s Book of Days,1863

  9. Eighteenth Century Dental Humour Anticipated Punch. Print by an Unknown Artist.

  10. Joshua Ward:Of Late Without the Least Pretence to Skill Ward’s Grown a Famed Physician by a Pill.Print Published in Caulfields Collection,1819

  11. John Taylor: Ophthalminator, Pontificial, Imperial and Royal. Included in a Collection of Four Hundred Portraits.

  12. Tunbridge Spa in the Eighteenth Century.Engraving After a Painting by Thomas Loggon.

  13. Quacks Taylor, Mapp and Ward with Twelve Honest Physicians. Mock Coat of Arms by Hogarth, 1736

  14. James Hallett, The Sussex Quack, 1795

  15. Hallett’s Handbill Cures For The Incurable with the Help of God

  16. Healing Waters on Tap: The Ancient Clerks Well At Clerkenwell, London. From an Early Nineteenth Century Print

  17. Perkins Metallic Tractors. White Magic for a Red Nose. A Caricature by James Gillray, 1757-1815

  18. The Oxytonor, an Essential Element in American Gas-Pipe Therapy. From Nostrums and Quackery, American Medical Association,1912

  19. The Boston Electric Belt-The Acme of American Electromagnetic Gadgetry. From Nostrums and Quackery, American Medical Association, 1912        Subscribe with RSSHUGGER

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