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1 Champe S. Andrews, Medical Quacks, Their Methods and Dangers 1 (1905)

handle is hein.agopinions/mlqstmsdr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: [Reprinted from THE MEDICAL NEWS, Jan. 7, 1905.J MEDICAL QUACKS, THEIR METHODS AND DAN- GERS. BY CHAMPE S. ANDREWS, ESQ., OF NEW YORK; COUNSEL MEDICAL SOCIETY COUNTY OF NEW YORK. Where I killed one, a fair square death By loss o' blood, or want o' breath, This night I'm free to take my oath That Hornbook's skill Has clad a score i' their last cloth By drop and pill. That's just a swatch o' Hornbook's way, Thus goes he on from day to day, Thus does he poison, kill and slay, An's weel paid for't; Yet stops me o' my lawful prey, Wi' pills and dirt. WHEN Burns, in his inimitable satire, selected Death as the one to expose the dangers of Dr. Hornbook's ignorant methods, he chose the one who had the best opportunities for accurate observation. The crimes laid by Death at the door of Doctor Hornbook, were terrible indeed, but it is not difficult to duplicate them over and over in the official records of actual crime as found in the proceedings of our Criminal Courts. In November, i8o8, one Samuel Thompson came into Beverly, Mass., and, proclaiming his ability to-heal the sick without fail, declared that the country was being ruined by the regular physician. As his experience with the credulous warranted him in believing, there were those, even in enlightened Massachusetts, who took him at his word. Patients flocked to him by the score. Ezra Lovett, Jr., finding himself con-

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