Nostrums and quackery; articles on the nostrum evil and quackery reprinted, with additions and modifications, from The Journal of the American Medical Association . American Fraudseries Samuel Hopkins Adamscalls attention to the absurdity ofthe proposition pul forward bynumerous ouacks that it is pos-sible to treat diseases by corre-spondence. As Mr. Adams says,it is like mending chimneys bymail. On a par with this is theteaching of manual manipula-tion by correspondence. Thisfeat is accomplished ( ?) by aninstitution calling itself theAmerican College of Mechano-Therapy having its headquarter
Nostrums and quackery; articles on the nostrum evil and quackery reprinted, with additions and modifications, from The Journal of the American Medical Association . American Fraudseries Samuel Hopkins Adamscalls attention to the absurdity ofthe proposition pul forward bynumerous ouacks that it is pos-sible to treat diseases by corre-spondence. As Mr. Adams says,it is like mending chimneys bymail. On a par with this is theteaching of manual manipula-tion by correspondence. Thisfeat is accomplished ( ?) by aninstitution calling itself theAmerican College of Mechano-Therapy having its headquartersin Chicago. The advertisements of thisconcern put the science ofmechano-therapy as taughl byit on a frankly commercial important and much-em-phasized point is that bystudying mechano-therapy youcan earn from $3,000 to $5,000a year. quackery probably nothan that of manipula- An ElectricBelt Free Send Toot Application At Once ToThe Physicians Imtituta. TIii-t Will SMid Ton AbB*latc1r Tl*+ Om©tlhrlrlM «j-B««r NilTdne I4wtrlc Halt*.tfcr If It Whlrh llu MaikiHkMMj ,i ,JO*t lour MlBMlali. An advertisemi m of thePhysicians Inst it ute. CIS mis<i;\xi;ous WHAT IS A MECIIANO-THERAPIST? The individual who, attracted by this get-rich-quick prop-osition, is anxious to learn something about the general prin-ciples of the cult, is told: His [the mechano-therapists] medicines arc not drugs but scientific combinations of food, circumstance, idea, waterand motion. After mentally digesting this somewhat abstruse proposi-tion, descriptive of the fundamental principles of mechano-therapy, the reader learns further, that: His instruments are not knives and saws, but his own defthands and the vital processes of the body itself, the circulation,respiration, secretion, etc., which he manipulates as he sees fit andhis judgment dictates. In other words the graduate of the American College ofMechano-Therapy manipulates as he sees fit his patientssecretion by scientific combi
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