| Show QUACKS IN WAKE OF SCIENCE by DR MORRIS Ai neriMa medical Asso cUtton quacks are among the first to utilize the discoveries of science As rapidly as new discoveries appear in any field of science the quacks adapt those discoveries to the exploitation of the public from tha time when miracle men healed human disease by incantation and charm until today when the exploiter of radium of ultraviolet ultra violet rays and of scientific knowledge concerning diet works his new hocus upon the public human beings have indicated that knowledge advances but credulity remains a fundamental feature of human nature of all the nations of the world the united states is most afflicted by peculiar healers A temporarily successful cult or fraud gives birth to innumerable offshoots off shoots the files of the american medical association con tain more than cards each representing some form of quackery the story of dentistry and dental quackery is as old as medical quackery in the middle ages dental charlatans traveled from city to city pulling teeth without the slightest conception of the relation of the teeth to the human body |
