Physician and Patient: Or a Practical View of the Mutual Duties, Relations and Interests of the Medical Profession and the Community (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Worthington Hooker

9780428971731: Physician and Patient: Or a Practical View of the Mutual Duties, Relations and Interests of the Medical Profession and the Community (Classic Reprint)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0428971733 ISBN 13: 9780428971731

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Excerpt from Physician and Patient: Or a Practical View of the Mutual Duties, Relations and Interests of the Medical Profession and the Community

The forms which quackery assumes are endless; but the material out of which they are evolved is essentially the same in all ages and in all countries. There are certain medical errors which are common to man everywhere and in every con dition. It is these which constitute the material of quackery, whether it appear among the savage or the civilized, the rude or the refined, the illiterate or the learned. One object of this book is to develop these fundamental errors, and to show the modus operandi by which the genius of imposture has produced from them the fantastic and ever-changing shapes of empiti I notice particularly some of the specific forms of quackery which are now prevalent, not because they differ essentially from those which have preceded them, but because they have a present interest to the reader.

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