The End of Quackery
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary, Drollery |
Subjects: | Quackery, Medical Treatment, Heterodoxy, Boundary Formation |
Believes that the 'novel' system of medicine called 'Coffinism' is 'very appropriate' and applicable to 'all manner of therapeutical schemes which deviate from true medical science'. Coffinism is an allusion to the alternative medical practice of Albert I Coffin. | |
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