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	Quackery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Quack medicines often had little in the way of active ingredients, or had ingredients which made a person feel good, such as what came to be known as recreational drugs.
		British patent medicines started to lose their dominance in the United States when they were denied access to the American market during the American Revolution, and lost further ground for the same reason during the War of 1812.
		British medicines never regained their previous dominance in North America, and the subsequent era of mass marketing of American patent medicines is usually considered to have been a "golden age" of quackery in the United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quackery (2327 words)

	More Ploys
		Quacks and vitamin pushers use several strategies to claim that their methods are popular (which may or may not be true), that popularity is a sign of effectiveness (which often is untrue), and that therefore you should try them.
		Quacks and vitamin pushers would like you to believe that their methods are harmless and therefore there is nothing to lose by trying them.
		Quacks use the slogan "health freedom" to divert attention away from themselves and toward victims of disease with whom we are naturally sympathetic.
	www.quackwatch.org /01QuackeryRelatedTopics/ploys.html (2630 words)

	Collect Medical Antiques -- Quack medicine
		The battery powered Electraply is another very common quack device of the early 20th century and is important in the history of medical quackery in that its sale finally resulted in legislation directed toward standardizing the safety and efficacy of similar instruments.
		The use of the electric chair for therapeutic purposes represents one of the supreme ironies in the history of medicine.
		MEDICINE: Perspectives in History and Art The history of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, and quack medicine is told by physicians, patients, nurses, writers, poets, artists, and many others through their quotes, letters, and art.
	www.collectmedicalantiques.com /quack3.html (905 words)

	University of Nevada School of Medicine - Post-Graduate Residency & Fellowships
		The Department of Family and Community Medicine is committed to providing an environment that supports outstanding patient care; such that our employees would want to refer their friends and family here for medical care.
		Acknowledging the breadth of family medicine, our motto is to encourage learners to “Diagnosis and manage the common problems uncommonly well”, while also allowing them to explore individual areas of interest.
		We believe that the development and dissemination of new knowledge is vital to the growth of family medicine, both in the field of patient care and in education.
	www.unr.edu /med/residency/reno/familymedicine (243 words)

	Quackery - Alternative medicine - Alternative medicine
		Widely marketed quack medicines (as opposed to locally produced and locally used remedies), often referred to as Patent medicines, first came to prominence in Britain and the British colonies, including North America, in the 17th and 18th centuries.
		The later years of the 18th century saw a huge increase in the number of quack medicines being internationally marketed, the majority of which were British in origin (Griffenhagen and Young 1957), and which were exported throughout the British Empire as well as the by then independent United States.
		Some practitioners, fully aware of the ineffectiveness of their medicine, may intentionally produce fraudulent scientific studies and medical test results, thereby confusing any potentional customers as to the effectiveness of the medical treatment.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Quackery (1867 words)

	The Head Heeb: The noble quack
		The 18th century may have been a time of increasingly modern knowledge and scientific methods, but it was also the golden age of quack medicine.
		Patent medicines "first came to prominence in Britain and the British colonies, including North America, in the 17th and 18th centuries," and were hawked with increasing success as the century wore on.
		The unlucky quack was sentenced to stand in the pillory and then be transported for seven years, which at that time meant hard labor in North America.
	headheeb.blogmosis.com /archives/030183.html (685 words)

	South Coast QUACK Center for Quilting, Universal Art, and Cultural Kaleidoscope!!
		We define a Quack as someone who is dedicated to the well-being of the patient as his or her first priority, rather than to the bank balance.
		A Quack may be a Doctor, either of medicine, dentistry, osteopathy, chiropractic, naturopathy, or naprapathy, or a nutritionist, massage therapist, light worker, or of some other persuasion.
		Quacks are always growing in understanding of how to help their patients and themselves enjoy the richness of human life to the fullest in the best possible health.
	www.quackcenter.com (570 words)

	OED Online main entry text frame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		In quacking for Patients he is so kind and free of his service.
		To treat after the fashion of a quack; to administer quack medicines to; to seek to remedy or put right by empirical or ignorant treatment.
		If he has any skill in quacking madmen, his art may perhaps be of service now.
	www.cs.wisc.edu /~o-laughl/oed-results/quack.html (265 words)

	Quack Medicine
		The claim that the medical profession had descended from "demon worshipping shamans" becomes quite ironic when we see how this Radio Biola worked: The patient was told to write his or her name on a piece of paper.
		"medicine originated in demonology and spent its time until the last century and a half trying to exorcise demons.
		We draw attention to this information, not in an attempt to embarass the society, but to demonstrate the level of ignorance regarding science and medicine, and to enable ones to grasp the source and origins of the present prohibition on blood.
	www.ajwrb.org /science/quack.shtml (1074 words)

	Collect Medical Antiques -- Quack medicine
		Dr. Albert Abrams, born in 1863, was the King of American Charlatans and his electric devices encouraged the production of a generation of quack machines that flooded the market in the first part of the 20th century (90).
		Abrams placed a drop of blood from one of his patients into a "dynamizer" to determine the vibration frequency of the afflicting disease, and then used an "ocilloclast" to duplicate those vibrations in order to neutralize that disease (91,92).
		The multiple dials were used to adjust the frequency of vibration to match that needed for the particular disease to be treated.
	www.collectmedicalantiques.com /quack4.html (889 words)

	logic puzzles, riddles and math puzzles - pzzls \| quack medicine? puzzle answer
		According to homeopaths the effect of a homeopathic medicin is indicated by a dilution factor.
		Their theory is that if a substance is diluted more, the effect of it will increase.
		The dilution factor of a homeopathic medicin consists of a number and a character.
	www.pzzls.com /quack_medicine_puzzle/answer.html (118 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Health - Quack alternative medicine pains me (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		The difficulty in investigating the claims of alternative medicine is that because of the way they are framed, they are impossible to disprove.
		What conventional doctors ask of the exponents of alternative medicine is that they expose their treatments and methods to scientific assessment.
		The difference between conventional medicine and alternative medicine in the 21st century is that the former is striving to develop an evidence base for treatment, while the latter sometimes seems to relish lack of evidence, even claiming, perversely, that it is some form of advantage.
	news.scotsman.com /health.cfm?id=184992004 (1126 words)

	MUSC Dept. of Family Medicine
		The Department of Family Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina was established in 1970 as one of the first university-affiliated departments in the country.
		The Family Medicine Residency program provides a stimulating educational environment within which two principal goals may be accomplished: 1) development of the full potential of each resident as a person and physician; and 2) provision of an academically sound learning opportunity in a progressive medical facility.
		University Family Medicine is located approximately 20 miles north of the MUSC downtown campus, the Trident Medical Center provides our residents a community atmosphere while the program maintains a university affiliation.
	www.musc.edu /dfm/index.html (398 words)

	Skeptics Quinte
		The efficacy (effectiveness) of any medicine or healing procedure is established through clinical testing which usually involves a battery of double-blind tests designed to prevent subjective factors from influencing evaluation of the results.
		Also, she has her own anti-quack crusade: when one chiropractor ran a series of ads in the local newspaper claiming that vaccination “is breaking the chain of natural passive immunity” (upholding the myth that “infectious diseases are good for you because they toughen the immune system”), she advertised back.
		Quack medicine is far from harmless both to the individual and to society at large.
	network54.com /Forum/219189/thread/1053550946/...+HARM+DOES+IT+DO (5567 words)

	Newton's Apple: Teacher's Guides
		The word quackery usually brings to mind old-time fast-talking medicine peddlers who conned their listeners into buying cure-all bottled syrup.
		Most medical and advertising experts say no. In fact, today's medical quacks, fraudulently earning millions of dollars, would be the envy of early practitioners.
		As fast as medical research debunks the quack claims, con artists invent profitable new packaging that simply draw on the latest words in medicine, like electronic and hormonal, or with references to new discoveries of wonder drugs.
	www.ktca.org /newtons/9/quack.html (904 words)

	Quack clinics
		Alissa Lim of the department of general medicine at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, told the conference that these were just the tip of the iceberg because they covered only events that came to the attention of Australian pediatricians.
		The adherents of these fields, however, state that "most alternative systems of medicine hold some common beliefs."2 Many theories of alternative medicine attempt to pose a single explanation for most human illness; the therapy is thought to correct the source of the problem, not merely treat its symptoms.
		Complementary medicine refers to a group of therapeutic and diagnostic disciplines that exist largely outside the institutions where conventional health care is taught and provided.
	www.healthwatcher.net /Quackerywatch/Quack-clinics/index.html (4154 words)

	Dr. Bob's Homepage for Medical Quackery
		During the first two decades of the twentieth century, a number of radium cures were unleashed on a credulous public unaware that Madame Curie's fingers had fallen off before her death.
		The largest medicine shows were assembled by John E. "Doc" Healy and Charles H. "Texas Charlie" Bigelow in 1881; their 20 road shows stopped at towns across rural America to offer hours of entertainment--singing, dancing, trained animals, minstrel shows, movies, chalk talks, skits ("afterpieces")--all for a dime.
		Even after the passage of the 1906 Act, the FDA gave food adulteration a higher enforcement priority than quack medicine; no jail sentences were imposed; the small fines, typically $10-$50, were a minor business expense; nostrum peddlers merely changed labels for appearances, then claimed that their concoctions were endorsed by the FDA.
	www.quackmedicine.com (1801 words)

	Ancient Egypt: Medicine
		The Egyptians explained them as the work of the gods, caused by the presence of evil spirits or their poisons, and cleansing the body was the way to rid the body of their influence.
		Physical medicines such as herbs were mostly expected to assuage the pain only, while magic effected the cure.
		Not all of Egyptian medicine was based on wishful thinking [8] (moreover we should never disregard the effect faith can have on our health), much was the result of experimentation and observation.
	www.reshafim.org.il /ad/egypt/timelines/topics/medicine.htm (6146 words)

	The Hindu : Andhra Pradesh / Anantapur News : Quack's medicine costs boy his arm
		ANANTAPUR: Illiterate parents' faith on treatment of quacks and lack of information on modern medicine has cost a 10-year-old boy his left arm.
		Quack's treatment for elbow dislocation on Sainath of Gownivaripalli in Gorantla mandal resulted in the formation of gangrene in his arm and the resultant infection forced the doctors to amputate his arm.
		As is the practice in a majority of rural areas, his parents rushed him to a quack in nearby Seenappapalli village where the seasoned quack applied some paste on the dislocated arm and wrapped it up with a bandage.
	www.hindu.com /2005/07/01/stories/2005070102600500.htm (288 words)

	Quack medicine won't bring fiscal cure @ workopolis.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Now is the time for sensitive taxpayers to avert their eyes while the witches of high finance dip into their noxious brew of screwy policies in search of enough dope to place agitated Toronto back into the zombie state they prefer.
		Nothing, in other words, sufficient to forestall yet another unseemly dosing of quack medicine this time next year.
		The only consolation available is that this annual ritual is becoming increasingly embarrassing both to the provincial overlords who prescribe the medicine and the municipal worthies who are forced to swallow it.
	globecareers.workopolis.com /servlet/Content/qprinter/20060221/BARBER21 (653 words)

	Cannabis Quack Medicines
		At one time, with an estimated 3 to 6% of all medicines sold in America contained it as an ingredient, Medical Cannabis was as common as aspirin is today.
		He not only listed the brand names of numerous Quack medicines, but also gave their chemical formulas (as ascertained from hired chemists), as well as provided supporting affidavits from government and medical officials.
		The medicine is a brick red powder, put up in a box holding about four ounces, and sold at the moderate price of $3.00.
	antiquecannabisbook.com /chap15/Quack.htm (4154 words)

	The quack page
		Patient's expectations of medicine are changing and we should be equipping our medical students so they can communicate better with their patients, have knowledge about the real world and can practice evidencebased medicine while considering each patient as an individual.
		Amusingly enough, their courses are promoted in much the same way as quack medicines, by means of personal testimonials.
		The dispassionate expert on Herbal medicine is a herbal practitioner who makes his living from it, and is just as uncritical as one might expect in that circumstance.
	www.ucl.ac.uk /Pharmacology/dc-bits/quack.html (16378 words)

	Comment is free: Which is the quack medicine?
		One way to divide medicine is into orthodox and complementary, but another is into those interventions (both diagnostic and treatment) supported by evidence and those that are not.
		He is a surgeon, and surgery is the branch of medicine that has the weakest evidence base.
		A girlfriend of mine had a skin rash that quickly developed over her body and was given immune-suppressant medicine with dozens of side-effects (including limited carcinogenic function and ongoing diarrhea), that should only have been given to transplant patients.
	commentisfree.guardian.co.uk /richard_smith/2006/05/richard_smith_on_quack_medicin.html (2201 words)

	Quack medicine pamphlet
		The Library has recently acquired a rare 18th-century pamphlet entitled An essay in favour of such public remedies, as are usually distinguished by the name of quack medicines.
		He attacks the medical profession's prejudice against proprietary medicines as based on professional jealousy, but his stress on the altruistic motives of the owners of proprietary medicines seems rather optimistic.
		Proprietary medicines could actually be a very lucrative business and some of those involved were far from scrupulous.
	library.wellcome.ac.uk /doc_WTL038847.html (274 words)

	Complementary and Alternative Medicine News and Views
		Without the support of organized medicine, and the government, much of alternative medicine would be considered quackery and fraud.
		The derogation of the responsibility of science based medicine and their cooperation with pseudo-science based health gurus is a big mistake.
		Canadian medicine is hurting, our hospitals are starving for support and our patients are dying in ambulances in our major cities because our government funds alternative medicine.
	www.healthwatcher.net /Quackerywatch/Alternative-medicine (5094 words)

	Homeopathy: The Ultimate Fake
		One part of the diluted medicine is then further diluted, and the process is repeated until the desired concentration is reached.
		Any study claiming to demonstrate effectiveness of a homeopathic medication should be rejected out-of-hand unless it includes a list of all the substances present in concentrations equal to or greater than the purported active ingredient at every stage of the dilution process, along with a rationale for rejecting each of them as a suspect.
		Park has noted that to expect to get even one molecule of the "medicinal" substance allegedly present in 30X pills, it would be necessary to take some two billion of them, which would total about a thousand tons of lactose plus whatever impurities the lactose contained.
	www.quackwatch.org /01QuackeryRelatedTopics/homeo.html (4227 words)

	Greed Medicine vs Quack Medicine
		It is a certification from a group that actively promotes and generally knows nothing except quack medicine.
		Secondly, the statement: This preamble is intended to indicate that I have been around medicine long enough to realize that most purported cures for cancer have been discredited, particularly when suggested by non-physicians who lack credentials.
		I realize that Dr. Roberts is probably a well-meaning individual, but obviously he has no idea that medicine is merely a puppet of the drug pharmaceutical conglomerates.
	www.tldp.com /issue/155/maxwell.htm (1220 words)

	Infothought: Blogging Effects As Quack Medicine
		I don't mean the following applies to you, but in general: A certain type of blog evangelism strikes me as very similar to the process of selling quack medicine.
		Any medical quack can usually produce a list of glowing testimonials - "I tried Dr. Blog's All-Purpose Cure-All, and I lost weight, my health improved, I became a magnet for hot members of the appropriate sex, and my career skyrocketed".
		But in real medicine, there's a saying, there are no effects without side-effects.
	sethf.com /infothought/blog/archives/000907.html (529 words)

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