Nostrums and quackery; articles on the nostrum evil and quackery reprinted, with additions and modifications, from The Journal of the American Medical Association . e and -ex and they willdo the rest. The expert who performs these marvels indiagnosis is A. W. -Van Bysterveld. who. we are told, hasspent a lifetime in examining human urine. A : IS WKITTKN A few inquiries having come in to Tiik JOURNAL concerningthis company, it seemed worth, while to make some investiga- 590 Ql ICKERY tion of the methods employed by tlie Van Bysterveld MedicineCompany. Accordingly a letter from a supposi
Nostrums and quackery; articles on the nostrum evil and quackery reprinted, with additions and modifications, from The Journal of the American Medical Association . e and -ex and they willdo the rest. The expert who performs these marvels indiagnosis is A. W. -Van Bysterveld. who. we are told, hasspent a lifetime in examining human urine. A : IS WKITTKN A few inquiries having come in to Tiik JOURNAL concerningthis company, it seemed worth, while to make some investiga- 590 Ql ICKERY tion of the methods employed by tlie Van Bysterveld MedicineCompany. Accordingly a letter from a supposititious patientwas sent last March, asking for full particulars about yourcure for disease. In reply the company sent a mailing casecontaining a small 2-dram vial (for the urine), a leaflet and aletter. The leaflet had for its front cover a picture of A. Bysterveld, Expert Inspector of Urine. Mr. Van , from his picture to be a man of mediocre intelligence whoruns to naturally curly hair and an artificially curled mus-tache. The analytical methods employed by Mr. Van B. inexamining urine are described as follows: Van Bysterveld Medicine Co., ^——**
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