Nostrums and quackery; articles on the nostrum evil and quackery reprinted, with additions and modifications, from The Journal of the American Medical Association . or particulars aboutthe methods of treatment. By return mail s-he received aform letter in which the date and her name were filled in bymeans of a typewriter. The letter stated among other things: 214 QUACKERY Before preparing the treatment for you, however, it will benecessary for me to have a more thorough understanding of yourrase, [am, therefore, Inclosing herewith a Symptom Blank, which1 will be pleased to have you fill oul an
Nostrums and quackery; articles on the nostrum evil and quackery reprinted, with additions and modifications, from The Journal of the American Medical Association . or particulars aboutthe methods of treatment. By return mail s-he received aform letter in which the date and her name were filled in bymeans of a typewriter. The letter stated among other things: 214 QUACKERY Before preparing the treatment for you, however, it will benecessary for me to have a more thorough understanding of yourrase, [am, therefore, Inclosing herewith a Symptom Blank, which1 will be pleased to have you fill oul and return to me. The Symptom Blank consisted of a number of questionsto be answered. There was also a list of diseases and symp-toms, and the patient was instructed to •draw a line underany of the following diseases pr symptoms you have. Accord-ingly, Mrs. X underscored the following: leucorrheaconstipationpainful periodsfemale trouble On sending this in to Dr. Day, form letter No. 2 came back,containing among many other things, the statement: A careful diagnosis of your case shows yon have Vaginitis, Con-stipation, Painful Menstruation and Female Greatly reduced photographic reproductions of letterheads of someof Griffins mail-order medical concerns. The Ovelmo Companyadvertises to cure all skin diseases. The Atlanta Kernedy Com-pany, Atlanta. Ga., Womans Remedy Co., San Francisco, and the•Womans Health Institute. Fort Wayne, all advertise as special-ists in female trouble. The J. W. Kidd Co., Fort Wayne,1 iid., does a general mail-order medical business. The words we have put in italics had been filled in by meansof a typewriter, having the same style and size of type andthe same color ink as that used in printing the rest of theletter. How much skill and vast experience was necessaryto make such a diagnosis from the symptom blank? Thefacts are, the careful diagnosis showed that Mrs. X wassullering from the very complaints that she had told Dr. Dayshe was suffer
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