Medical Quacks, Their Methods and Dangers V. 1

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1 Champe S. Andrews, Medical Quacks, Their Methods and Dangers 1 (1905)

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[Reprinted from THE MEDICAL NEWS, Jan. 7, 1905.J

MEDICAL QUACKS, THEIR METHODS AND DAN-
GERS.
BY CHAMPE S. ANDREWS, ESQ.,
OF NEW YORK;
COUNSEL MEDICAL SOCIETY COUNTY OF NEW YORK.
Where I killed one, a fair square death
By loss o' blood, or want o' breath,
This night I'm free to take my oath
That Hornbook's skill
Has clad a score i' their last cloth
By drop and pill.
That's just a swatch o' Hornbook's way,
Thus goes he on from day to day,
Thus does he poison, kill and slay,
An's weel paid for't;
Yet stops me o' my lawful prey,
Wi' pills and dirt.
WHEN Burns, in his inimitable satire, selected
Death as the one to expose the dangers of Dr.
Hornbook's ignorant methods, he chose the
one who had the best opportunities for accurate
observation. The crimes laid by Death at the
door of Doctor Hornbook, were terrible indeed,
but it is not difficult to duplicate them over and
over in the official records of actual crime as
found in the proceedings of our Criminal
Courts.
In November, i8o8, one Samuel Thompson
came into Beverly, Mass., and, proclaiming his
ability to-heal the sick without fail, declared that
the country was being ruined by the regular
physician. As his experience with the credulous
warranted him in believing, there were those,
even in enlightened Massachusetts, who took
him at his word. Patients flocked to him by the
score. Ezra Lovett, Jr., finding himself con-