The funny side of physic : or, The mysteries of medicine, presenting the humorous and serious sides of medical practice An exposé of medical humbugs, quacks, and charlatans in all ages and all countries . the swindle. Here is now a parallel above reverend says he willsend the recipe free. I directedmy student to write for it. Therecipe came, with various named therein, supposed tobe the Latin names of assert that there are no suchmedicines in the Materia Med-ica, or the world. The reverenddont want that there should ? Because you would notthen send to him f
The funny side of physic : or, The mysteries of medicine, presenting the humorous and serious sides of medical practice An exposé of medical humbugs, quacks, and charlatans in all ages and all countries . the swindle. Here is now a parallel above reverend says he willsend the recipe free. I directedmy student to write for it. Therecipe came, with various named therein, supposed tobe the Latin names of assert that there are no suchmedicines in the Materia Med-ica, or the world. The reverenddont want that there should ? Because you would notthen send to him for his Com-pound. He sends with his recipe acircular, in which he gives youthe history of his marvellousdiscovery. Further along, bysome oversight, he says it wasmade known to him through aphysician ! The names are bogus. Thewhole remedy is a humbug. There are names in it as specieswhich sound something like some medical term ; and thedruggist may be deceived thereby. The reverend quack,foreseeing the difficulty in obtaining the articles in theirpurity at any druggists, advises you to send to him forthem. Do you begin to see the dodge? He will furnish itat cost Only think! How benevolent! My means. OLD SANDS OF LIFE. RECIPES GRATIS. 97 make nio independent. Think again. An invalid fromboyhood, his time and means exhausted in travelling inEurope two years, and was only sent a missionary (?)through the kindness of friends, he assures ns in his cir-cular. Here he discovered Uirouglt an old physician — surelya new mode of discovery — this wonderful compound, whichcured him in six weeks, and forthwith, in gratitude, heproceeded to New York, and began putting up this mar-vellous remedy at cost. Let us examine the article sold for three dollars and a halfa small package. Dr. Hall, of the Journal of Health,examined the article which Old Sands of Life sold asCanabis Indica, and found the cost but sixteen cents, bottleand all. Nevertheless, The Retired Physician sold it tohis dupes
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