Newspaper Medical Literature
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary |
Subjects: | Medical Treatment, Medical Practitioners, Quackery, Nomenclature, Expertise |
Defending 'medical science', attacks 'one of our contemporaries' for using sloppy 'medical phraseology' in describing the case of a woman whose bad cold was allegedly cured by the application of Thomas Holloway's ointment. Denies the authenticity of the claim that a 'medical gentlemen' of St Bartholomew's Hospital judged that the woman had only a short time to live, and protests 'against statements tending to recommend' Holloway's medicine. |
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