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Quack
Tales of Medical Fraud from the
Museum of Questionable Medical Devices
Bob McCoy
Softbound
240 pages
Publisher: Santa Monica Press
Date Published: 2000
All sorts of nostrums and gadgets are described and illustrated here:
soaps that wash away weight, breast developers, and various stimulants
to the sexual appetite. These are funny, but also covered is the tragedy
of radium and those poisoned by it. The gadgets are hilarious.
Nose adjusters, height developers, even glasses that would reduce your
weight. The book has abundant quotations from the advertising and pamphlets
that came with the quackery, and is profusely illustrated.
Americans spend a hundred million dollars a year on quack pills and
gadgets that do nothing and may be harmful. So Quack! might not
just deliver the fun of laughing at human greed and credulity, but it
may help the serious education of readers as well.
The book has been gently read, and the pages are clean and bright with gentle light wear to it's cover.
Order by ITEM #BKS-212-07
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