10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «QUACKERIES»
Discover the use of
quackeries in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
quackeries and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
This fair and witty appraisal examines some of the crazes and quackeries that have masqueraded as science.
2
The Humbugs of the World: An Account of Humbugs, ...
A number of these recipes are barefaced quackeries ; such as cures for
consumption, cancer, rheumatism, and sundry other diseases ; to make whiskers
and moustaches grow — ah, boys, you can't hurry up those things. Greasing your
cheeks ...
Phineas Taylor Barnum, 1866
3
The Life of Frederick the Second, King of Prussia: To which ...
His paper was entitled, Charlata- leries (quackeries), which drew down on him
the vengeance of all the quacks ; a tolerably numerous tribe in every state. One of
these quacks, watching for a favourable moment, read, one day, in Crantz's ...
Jean-Charles Laveaux, Frederick II (King of Prussia), 1789
ON HIS death, Abrams left an estate of more than a million dollars made in a few
years, but as with most peculiar methods of treatment, his cult died with him.
Soon afterward emerged one of the most romantic qf medical quackeries, the I- ...
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The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine
It is well for the world, that most quackeries are harmless to the public ; that is,
that they injure none but those whom they seduce. We attach no greater
importance to quacks in general than we do to the disagreeable vermin that suck
our blood ...
Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, John Holmes Agnew, 1841
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The Knickerbocker; Or, New-York Monthly Magazine
It is well for the world, that most quackeries are harmless to the public; that is, that
they injure none but those whom they seduce. We attach no greater importance
to quacks in general than we do to the disagreeable vermin that suck our blood ...
7
Valerius: A Roman Story
You do not mean surely to make me think that you believe in the efficacy of love-
potions, or any such quackeries?" " Quackeries ! do you call philtres quackeries ?
Why, there was a girl once gave myself a philtre that kept me raving for six ...
John Gibson Lockhart, 1856
8
Guild Socialism Restated
Most of these may be “quackeries”; but it is better to admit many quackeries than
to boycott one real educational discovery, and the danger of quackeries would be
greatly reduced if, in the ways suggested later, the pupils secured a measure of ...
Of late years cures by the laying on of hands, assisted, however, by prayer, and
the anointing with oil, have become very common, especially in the United States
, the hot-bed of all sorts of quackeries. This summer there has been a "faith ...
10
History of the English Church and of the Principal Bodies of ...
X. From. Germany,. that. depdt. of. quackeries,. a. system,. pretending. to.
ascertain. character,. by. ' ita lex scripta est,' could be the only rule of his decision
; and to this he was compelled, by his oath and his conscience, to adhere. The
law ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «QUACKERIES»
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quackeries is used in the context of the following news items.
Belief in homeopathy is a moral test
One of the problems with smug intellectuals is that their attacks on homeopathy and other quackeries suggests the only enemies of objective truth are small ... «Politics.co.uk, Jul 15»
An Interview With HealthTap's Ron Gutman
So we were protecting against quackeries, or doctors who were only pretending to be doctors because they claimed they got their license somewhere else and it ... «PC Magazine, Jan 15»
Bill Nye and Ken Ham Should Not Debate Tonight
The agents of such quackeries gain their converts by the simple process of reducing the inordinately complex to the absurdly simple. Unless a man is already ... «Huffington Post, Feb 14»
The Incredible, Delectable, Miracle of 19th Century Medicine …
Barnum wrote in his still-in-print tome, The humbugs of the world: An account of humbugs, delusions, impositions, quackeries, deceits and deceivers generally, ... «Cannabis Culture, Feb 13»
Brit Novelist Martin Amis Slams Romneys, Mormonism
One of the dozens of quackeries that sprang up during the Great Revival, Mormonism was founded on April 6, 1830. So … what does Amis think of President ... «Big Hollywood, Sep 12»
Gold Standard Is Coming
The commission is going to take on an importance that will astound today's political punditry, besotted as they are with stale Keynesian quackeries about money, ... «Forbes, Sep 12»
“Proof” is not what most people think it is
... pure quackery), developmental optometry (a highly dubious set of tests and interventions that includes vision therapy), and that quackery to end all quackeries ... «ScienceBlogs, Apr 12»
A Conversation With Irving Kristol
And the result is that the field has been invaded by all sorts of quackeries, all sorts of amateur philosophies. I think that, in this respect, young people both of left ... «American Spectator, Sep 09»
Michael Jackson and the Jewish nose
"It is impossible for me to give the reader an account of all the garnishings, changes, injections and quackeries to which Itzig Faitel Stern submitted himself," the ... «Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Jun 09»
Suicide by Pseudoscience
The quackeries will be purged, forgotten, hushed up. Except, that is, for the lasting effect on the health, morale, and self-esteem of the American people. «Wired News, Jun 04»
