Quack, quack, quack
Subtitle: the sellers of nostrums in prints, posters, ephemera & books ; an exhibition on the frequently excessive & flamboyant seller of nostrums as shown in prints, posters, caricatures, books, pamphlets, advertisements & other graphic arts over the last five centuries
By: by William H. Helfand.
Publisher: The Grolier Club
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Medicine -- Posters -- Exhibitions
Genres: Posters; Exhibitions.
Other titles: Sellers of nostrums in prints, posters, ephemera & books.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-243) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: On quackery; title: The quack; title: Identifying quacks; title: Common traits; title: Regulars vs. irregulars; title: Drugs on the market; title: Advertising; title: Growth & decline; title: The persistence of quackery; title: The itinerant quack; title: The ways of the quack; title: Systems; title: Morison's Pills; title: Vin Mariani; title: Anatomical museums & medicine shows; title: Selling sex cures; title: Addiction & electricity cures; title: Quacks in the arts; title: The evils of quackery.