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Physician and patient : $b or, a practical view of the mutual duties, relations and interests of the medical profession and the community — John Shaqi

Physician and patient : $b or, a practical view of the mutual duties, relations and interests of the medical profession and the communityHooker, Worthington

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Physician and patient : $b or, a practical view of the mutual duties, relations and interests of the medical profession and the community

Name: Physician and patient : $b or, a practical view of the mutual duties, relations and interests of the medical profession and the community
Author: Hooker, Worthington

Hooker, Worthington

Medical ethics; Physician and patient; Physicians; Quacks and quackery

False estimate of the importance of _positive_ medication. This
  error appears in various ways. Healing of wounds—anointed axe.
  Attributing effects to agencies just preceding them—_post hoc
  propter hoc_ mode of reasoning. Referring the cure of a case to
  some _one_ remedy or measure, when commonly the result of many.
  Disposition to have something done all the time. Disease considered
  often as a palpable thing—a humor—a poison—medicines supposed to
  neutralize it. Specifics. Supposed to be many—really few, if any.
  Definition. Inadequate ideas of the community of the necessity for
  discrimination in medical practice. Propensity to look for some
  universal catholicon. Disease supposed by some to be an unit. A sort
  of universality of operation attributed to favorite remedies, even
  sometimes among physicians. Dr. Beddoes’ gases. Physicians _correct_
  their errors by experience—the public only exchange one error for
  another in medicine. Changes in popular opinion in regard to quack
  remedies.


  CHAPTER IV.

  QUACKERY,                                                         80

  The grand source of quackery the false reference of effects to
  causes. The way in which a remedy, whether active or inert, acquires
  its reputation. Quack medicines principally of _three_ kinds. 1.
  Evacuants. Great similarity in these—made up mostly of articles
  in common use. 2. Those which are supposed to act upon the system
  in a gradual way, as alternatives. Preparations of sarsaparilla.
  Impositions. 3. Those which are supposed to act especially upon the
  lungs. Harm done by their indiscriminate use. Quantities of inert
  and damaged articles used in preparing quack medicines. Importance
  of the _name_ of a medicine in giving it currency. Ridiculousness
  of quack advertisements. Certificates. Chiefly of _four_ kinds. 1.
  Forgeries. 2. Essentially, sometimes wholly, untrue. How obtained. 3.
  Those given by invalids imagining themselves to be relieved. 4. Those
  given by invalids who are relieved while taking the medicine—inferred
  to be done _by_ the medicine. Certificates of clergymen. Rule of the
  medical profession in regard to nostrums. Proposed mode of guarding
  against imposition. Quackery as a monstrous business interest.
  Press and legislatures trammelled by it. Itinerant quack lecturers.
  Lectures especially to the ladies. Animal magnetism. Paracelsus
  the “prince of quacks.” St. John Long. Perkins’ tractors. Forms of
  Quackery many, but the materials from which they are formed always
  the same. No discoveries have ever been made by quackery.


  CHAPTER V.

  THOMPSONISM,                                                     103

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