Punch,  20 (1851), 100.

A Hint for the Quacks

Anon

Genre:

Essay, Drollery

Subjects:

Quackery, Medical Practitioners, Medical Treatment


    Wonders why 'advertising doctors' tend to promise to cure 'a bad leg of so many years standing' and what the world would say to such comparable promises as curing noses and eyes 'of twenty years running'.



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