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[From the library of noted scholar Caroline Hannaway.] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Light wear. Contemporary signature of Hannaway on front end page, else unmarked. xi, 280 pages ; 24 cm. "The history of medical quackery has generally been written anecdotally as a series of tales of knaves, rogues, and imposters. This book challenges that approach and breaks new ground by relating the careers of the dazzling English charlatans to the great mass of everyday medical empirics, itinerants and nostrum-mongers. It takes quackery out of the history of deception and gullibility and instead analyses it as part of the growth of commercialized market-place medicine." Caroline Hannaway was a historian of medicine with close ties to the Johns Hopkins Departments of History of Medicine and History of Science and Technology

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More than fifty years ago, Thomas Szasz showed that the concept of mentalillness―a disease of the mind―is an oxymoron, a metaphor, a myth.Disease, in the medical sense, affects only the body. He also demonstratedthat civil commitment and the insanity defense, the paradigmatic practicesof psychiatry, are incompatible with the political values of personal responsibilityand individual liberty. The psychiatric establishment’s rejection ofSzasz’s critique posed no danger to his work: its defense of coercions andexcuses as “therapy” supported his argument regarding the metaphoricalnature of mental illness and the transparent immorality of brutal psychiatriccontrol masquerading as humane medical care.In the late 1960s, the launching of the so-called antipsychiatry movementvitiated Szasz’s effort to present a precisely formulated conceptualand political critique of the medical identity of psychiatry and of psychiatriccoercions and excuses. Led by the Scottish psychiatrist R. D. Laing, theantipsychiatrists used the term to attract attention to themselves and deflectattention from what they did, which included coercions and excuses basedon psychiatric principles and power.For this reason, Szasz rejected, and continues to reject, psychiatry andantipsychiatry with equal vigor. Subsuming his work under the rubric ofantipsychiatry betrays and negates it just as surely and effectively assubsuming it under the rubric of psychiatry. In Antipsychiatry: QuackerySquared, Szasz powerfully argues that his writings belong to neither psychiatrynor antipsychiatry. They stem from conceptual analysis, social-politicalcriticism, and common sense.

If nineteenth-century Britain witnessed the rise of medical professionalism, it also witnessed rampant quackery. It is tempting to categorize historical practices as either orthodox or quack, but what did these terms really signify in medical and public circles at the time? How did they develop and evolve? What do they tell us about actual medical practices?Doctoring the Novel explores the ways in which language constructs and stabilizes these slippery terms by examining medical quackery and orthodoxy in works such as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Charles Dickens’s Bleak House and Little Dorrit, Charlotte Brontë’s Villette, Wilkie Collins’s Armadale, and Arthur Conan Doyle’s Stark Munro Letters. Contextualized in both medical and popular publishing, literary analysis reveals that even supposedly medico-scientific concepts such as orthodoxy and quackery evolve not in elite laboratories and bourgeois medical societies but in the rough-and-tumble of the public sphere, a view that acknowledges the considerable, and often underrated, influence of language on medical practices.

If nineteenth-century Britain witnessed the rise of medical professionalism, it also witnessed rampant quackery. It is tempting to categorize historical practices as either orthodox or quack, but what did these terms really signify in medical and public circles at the time? How did they develop and evolve? What do they tell us about actual medical practices?Doctoring the Novel explores the ways in which language constructs and stabilizes these slippery terms by examining medical quackery and orthodoxy in works such as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Charles Dickens’s Bleak House and Little Dorrit, Charlotte Brontë’s Villette, Wilkie Collins’s Armadale, and Arthur Conan Doyle’s Stark Munro Letters. Contextualized in both medical and popular publishing, literary analysis reveals that even supposedly medico-scientific concepts such as orthodoxy and quackery evolve not in elite laboratories and bourgeois medical societies but in the rough-and-tumble of the public sphere, a view that acknowledges the considerable, and often underrated, influence of language on medical practices.

THE MEDICAL ELECTRICIANS Dr. Scott and his Victorian Colleagues in Quackery George Augustus Scott, although he gained notoriety (and riches) selling “electric” cure-alls, was a wide-ranging entrepreneur. Scott left behind legitimate legacies: successful manufacturing businesses in Massachusetts and London, and a famously unsuccessful mercantile cooperative in New York. The story of ‘Dr. Scott,’ a quack peddler of Electric brushes, corsets, and belts, electric in name only, is intertwined with those of several other Victorian Medical Electricians. He mentored protégés who became infamous for quackery: Cornelius B. Harness, in England, and John R. Foran in America; and tangled with a feisty Brooklyn competitor, William C. Wilson, who later took up with Foran. George Scott was not a physician, and avoided referring to himself as Doctor except in his audacious advertisements. He did not seek personal publicity (an attribute rare among quacks) but was well known socially. Scott died a wealthy man at age 48, and his Pall Mall Electric business persisted for years, the last known advertisements appeared in the 1920s. Here are the advertisements and adventures of Scott, Harness, Wilson, Foran and their colleagues in quackery during the latter part of the Nineteenth Century.

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This mechanistic book is an attempt to compile under one cover objective findings from various reliable sources and to relate them to the art of singing. There are those teachers who feel that applying science to an art is quackery, but some believe that our only safeguard against the charlatan is general knowledge of the most accurate information available. Whether you are a singer or a teacher of singing, you will find something to profitably add to your philosophy. This edition includes much more exact information.

The use of endorsements and testimonials to sell anything imaginable is a modern development, though the technique is centuries old. Before World War I, endorsement ads were tied to patent medicine, and were left with a bad reputation when that industry was exposed as quackery. The reputation was well earned: claims of a product's curative powers sometimes ran opposite the endorser's obituary, and Lillian Russell once testified that a certain compound had made her "feel like a new man." Distrusted by the public, banished from mainstream publications, endorsements languished until around 1920, but returned with a vengeance with the growth of consumerism and modern media. Despite its questionable effectiveness, endorsement advertising is now ubiquitous, costing advertisers (and consequently consumers) hundreds of millions of dollars annually. This exploration of modern endorsement advertising--paid or unsolicited testimonials endorsing a product--follows its evolution from a marginalized, mistrusted technique to a multibillion-dollar industry. Chapters recount endorsement advertising's changing form and fortunes, from Lux Soap's co-opting of early Hollywood to today's lucrative industry dependent largely on athletes. The social history of endorsement advertising is examined in terms of changing ethical and governmental views, shifting business trends, and its relationship to the growth of modern media, while the money involved and the question of effectiveness are scrutinized. The illustrated text includes five appendices that focus on companies, celebrities, athletes and celebrity endorsements.

This authoritative and entertaining exhibition catalog explores the long visual history of a rich and neglected topic: medical quackery, from the itinerant seller of nostrums four centuries ago to the unsolicited spam of today's internet. Presenting a broad variety of material—prints by William Hogarth and Honoré Daumier, posters by Jules Chéret and Maxfield Parrish, and books by H. G. Wells and S. Weir Mitchell—Quack, Quack, Quack offers a delightful look at the remarkable artistry and elaborate language quacks used to peddle their wares: lavish pronouncements, excessive postures, and imaginatively exalted therapeutic promises.The earliest quacks, we see, dressed elaborately, inflated their credentials, and embraced an extravagant vocabulary to market their panaceas, at times claiming their pills and salves would cure all disease. They were succeeded in short order by the makers of proprietary medicines, many of whom adopted quack-style promotional methods while introducing new ones of their own. These vendors advertised widely—often with celebrity testimonials—publishing broadsides, posters, pamphlets, and manifestos to amplify their claims.And though recent strides in medicine mean that most people avoid quacks, and efforts have been made to rid society of patent-medicine makers, the quack survives to the present day, promising to make us all thinner, better-looking, healthier, or more sexually potent. This catalogue—and the 2002 New York City Grolier Club exhibition it originally accompanied—are fascinating reminders of how long such promises have been with us, and in how many unique and scintillating ways they've been made.

The use of endorsements and testimonials to sell anything imaginable is a modern development, though the technique is centuries old. Before World War I, endorsement ads were tied to patent medicine, and were left with a bad reputation when that industry was exposed as quackery. The reputation was well earned: claims of a product's curative powers sometimes ran opposite the endorser's obituary, and Lillian Russell once testified that a certain compound had made her "feel like a new man." Distrusted by the public, banished from mainstream publications, endorsements languished until around 1920, but returned with a vengeance with the growth of consumerism and modern media. Despite its questionable effectiveness, endorsement advertising is now ubiquitous, costing advertisers (and consequently consumers) hundreds of millions of dollars annually. This exploration of modern endorsement advertising--paid or unsolicited testimonials endorsing a product--follows its evolution from a marginalized, mistrusted technique to a multibillion-dollar industry. Chapters recount endorsement advertising's changing form and fortunes, from Lux Soap's co-opting of early Hollywood to today's lucrative industry dependent largely on athletes. The social history of endorsement advertising is examined in terms of changing ethical and governmental views, shifting business trends, and its relationship to the growth of modern media, while the money involved and the question of effectiveness are scrutinized. The illustrated text includes five appendices that focus on companies, celebrities, athletes and celebrity endorsements.

"How long can humans live? Is immortality possible? Just what is the aging process? The aging and inevitable death of the human body have inspired more myths and outrageous quackery than anything else subject to scientific inquiry. . . . Now comes a most fascinating book, insightful and scholarly, to provide what answers have emerged so far."--San Francisco ChronicleHere, at last, preeminent cell biologist Leonard Hayflick presents the truth about human aging. Based on more than thirty years of pioneering research in the field, How and Why We Age explores not only how our major biological systems change as we grow older, but also examines the intangible alterations in our modes of thinking and feeling, our moods and sexual desires, our personality traits and our memories. With the immediacy of the latest scientific discoveries, Dr. Hayflick explains how aging affects every part of the body, and dispels many of the most persistent aging myths, to show that: * Hearts do not naturally get weaker with age.* Regular exercise and a low-fat diet won't slow aging.* Curing cancer would only add two years to the average sixty-five-year-old American life. Curing heart disease, however would add fourteen years.* Only five percent of people over the age of sixty-five are in nursing homes* No human has lived--or probably can live--past 120 years.Gracefully written, clearly organized, and packed with essential facts and statistics, How and Why We Age is a landmark study of the aging process for readers of all ages."Written in clear, nontechnical language, it is an excellent introduction to the scientific and demographic literature on this multifaceted subject."--Nature

Excerpt from Superb Virility of Manhood: Giving the Causes and Simple Home Methods of Curing the Weaknesses of MenThere has been enough of quackery and mystery in relation to the topics with which this book deals. Let the blackness of ignorance be dispelled by the brilliant rays of knowledge to illumine the path that leads to safe, sensible and sane cures for sexual troubles.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Walter Gratzer here offers a marvelous smorgasbord of stories taken from the history of nutrition, providing an engaging account of the struggle to find the ingredients of a healthy diet, and the fads and quackery that have waylaid the unwary. Gratzer recounts this history with characteristic crispness and verve. The book teems with colorful personalities, a veritable who's who of medical history, from Hippocrates to Pasteur, plus such intriguing figures such as Count Rumford, who argued that since plants got their food from water, soups would make the best meals for us. Gratzer highlights the brilliant flashes of insight as well as the sadly mistaken leaps of logic in the centuries-long effort to understand how the body uses food. We see the ingenious experiments used to reveal the workings of the stomach, the chemical analyses that uncovered the nature of proteins, carbohydrates, and vitamins, and the slow recognition that malnutrition lay behind such terrible diseases as scurvy, rickets, beriberi, and pellagra. Along the way, we read about the invention of the tin can (which originally had to be opened with a hammer and chisel), learn why ancient Egyptians had thicker skulls than Persians, and find out about today's fads and fancy diets--some dangerous, others just daft, such as the blood group diet, where you plan your meals around your blood type (people who are type 0 are supposed to eat more meat). Spiced with colorful anecdotes from the history of medicine and with sharp portraits of the scientists who advanced our understanding of diet and digestion, Terrors of the Table is a must read for anyone interested in food and health.

Detected you way through Crime and Puzzlement 1 and Crime and Puzzlement 2? Solved all the heinous crimes of You're the Detective? Well then it's time you matched your sleuthing skills against Julius Quackery, amateur detective extraordinaire, as he tries to find out: Who beaned poor Kippy Betcher, ex-jockey, and sent him on his final ride? Wealthy Robert Pickle has disappeared overboard suicide or murder? The police hold a photograph of the murdered on the way to his crime but who or what is in the picture? Read the story. Ponder the picture. Seize the pencil in fist and solve it yourself! In this devilish anthology you'll find more delightfully murderouse suspense from the blood-red pen of the criminally successful Lawrence Treat. Granny Scratch shares a mushroom stew dinner with her son Casper and wife Hecuba. Four days later Granny's dying of mushroom poisoning but her hated heirs are healthy. Granny wants to know how she was killed before she dies! Study the picture and the text, answer the questions, and then solve the mystery... Still stumped, gumshoe? (Answers are in the back of the book.) Happy sleuthing!

Excerpt from Superb Virility of Manhood: Giving the Causes and Simple Home Methods of Curing the Weaknesses of MenThere has been enough of quackery and mystery in relation to the topics with which this book deals. Let the blackness of ignorance be dispelled by the brilliant rays of knowledge to illumine the path that leads to safe, sensible and sane cures for sexual troubles.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Electrophotography, commonly called Kirlian photography, remains a subject of speculation and controversy almost 150 years after its discovery. While many scientists call it psychic quackery, many maintain that the study of Kirlian photographs can detect illnesses in plants and animals before any outward symptoms materialize. Whatever its validity, Kirlian phenomena fascinates many in the fields of science and art. This book is designed as the first step for anyone interested in Kirlian photography and its potential impact. John Iovine, author of "Homemade Holograms", takes a practical approach, giving readers the hands-on guidance they need to take their own Kirlian photographs. He also examines the history of electrophotography and many of its possible applications in medicine, industry, and the military. Especially illuminating is his discussion of the "phantom leaf" aura that continues to baffle scientists to this day.