Quacks and Grafters: Being an Exposé of the State of Therapeutics at the Present Time, With Some Reasons Why Such Grafters Flourish, and Suggestions to Remedy the Deplorable Muddle

There has been but one other period in the history of medicine when so many systems of the healing art were in vogue. In the seventeenth century, during the Reform Period, following the many epoch-making discoveries, as the blood and lymph circulation; when alchemy was abandoned and chemistry became a science; when Galileo regenerated physics, and zoology and botany were largely extended; when Newton enunciated the laws of gravitation; when cinchona bark, the great febrifuge, was introduced...