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When patients on combined (orthodox and quack) treatment improve, the quack remedy (e.g., laetrile) gets the credit. If things go badly, the patient is told that he arrived too late, and conventional treatment gets the blame.
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He set up the Balsamea Company in San Francisco to market the remedy as Syrup Leptinol, ... This group was founded in 1955 by Fred J. Hart, president of the Electronic Medical Foundation, a company that marketed quack devices. NHF sponsors meetings, generates massive letter-writing campaigns, and helps defend questionable...
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A nostrum is a worthless, quack remedy. ... Quack Remedies - Nostrums Related Articles ... home > medications center > medications a-z list > quack remedies - nostrums article...
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This is where you can post your ailments and get diagnosed by an eighteenth-century quack doctor! Just post your message and the quack doctor will respond with what was a typical eighteenth-century advertisement for quack remedies. ... The most famous quack remedy of all was the Anodyne Necklace.
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Despite these efforts, quack medicine persists around the world. Some Nigerians treat malaria with witchcraft, a South African health minister recently claimed that garlic and beetroot treat HIV, and western health stores brim with unproven treatments for almost any disease imaginable.
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www.newscientist.com/article/dn17064-quack-remedies-spread-by-virtue-of-being-useless.html
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That said, I will not be using this remedy. My remedy for poor health is to not let it get in a sorry state to begin with. It's time consuming and requires self-control, with a dounside that you have to attend a lot of funerals as the people you know who put their trust only in doctors peel off one-by-one.
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www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2009/03/the-prince-and-the-detox-cure.html
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Renaud Dehousse and Stephen Boucher comment on an article written by Lüder Gerken and Roman Herzog in the Summer 2007 issue of Europe's World. ... Eighteenth century medicine was founded on the notion of "humours" − sanguine, phlegmatic, choleric and melancholic. Treatments would aim to ... First, the diagnosis is flawed.
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The skeptics Dictionary is an excellent website. Almost all of the topics are well written and contain numerous links to related topics. Try it. ... Course Code: PSDI 2190 ... The following are some useful Web Sites for class projects and general everyday use. As everyone familiar with web browsing is probably aware,
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If I were to attempt to practice medicine without a license, I could be prosecuted. On the other hand, there is nothing stopping a doctor from pronouncing himself an economic expert and recommending price controls. ... Price controls, which the Bush administration opposes, would help the ... As 'Jane Galt' once put it,
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