Quackery

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Year	Title & Tags	Author(s)
1492	Rosa anglica practica medicinae. Ed: Nicolaus Scyllacius. Traditional & Indigenous Europe & United Kingdom Alternative & Fringe Medicine Historiography & General Works	JOHN OF GADDESDEN (1280 – 1361) SCYLLACIUS, Nicolaus (1464 – )
1646	Pseudodoxia epidemica, or, enquiries into very many received tenents and commonly presumed truths. Traditional & Indigenous Alternative & Fringe Medicine Professions & Education	BROWNE, Sir Thomas (1605 – 1682)
1666	A brief account of Mr Valentine Greatrakes, and divers of the strange cures by him lately performed. Written by himself in a letter addressed to the Honourable Robert Boyle Esq., 1666. Traditional & Indigenous Alternative & Fringe Medicine	GREATRAKES, Valentine [GREATOREX] (1629 – 1683)
1699	The dispensary: A poem. In six cantos. Traditional & Indigenous Alternative & Fringe Medicine Pharmacology & Therapeutics Arts, Literature & Humanities Zoology & Animal Sciences	GARTH, Samuel (1661 – 1719)
1700	Observations sur la maniere de tailler dans les deux sexes pour l'extraction de la pierre, pratiqué par Frere Jacques. Nouveau system de la circulation du sang pour le trou ovale dans le foetus humain, avec les réponses aux objections qui ont été faites contre cette hypothese. Traditional & Indigenous Physiology & Embryology	MÉRY, Jean (1645 – 1722)
1745	Aνтιθηεριακά. An essay on mithridatium and theriaka. Traditional & Indigenous Alternative & Fringe Medicine Pharmacology & Therapeutics	HEBERDEN, William Sr. (1710 – 1801)
1761	History of the travels and adventures of the Chevalier John Taylor, ophthalmiater; pontifical imperial and royal to the Kings of Poland, Denmark, Sweden, the electors of the Holy Empire, the princes of Saxegotha, Mecklenburg, Anspach, Brunswick, Parma, Modena... Addressed to his only son. Traditional & Indigenous Travel & Voyages Ophthalmology & Vision	TAYLOR, John (1703 – 1772)
1767	The law of physicians, surgeons, and apothecaries: Containing all the statutes, cases at large, arguments, resolutions, and judgments concerning them. Compiled, by desire of a great personage, for the use of such gentlemen of the faculty as are enemies to quackery, in order to point out the defects in the law, as it now Stands, relative to those professions, and To propose such expedients for remedying them as they shall think necessary, before the next session of parliament, when it is intended to apply for an act for regulating the practice of physick, and suppressing empirical nostrums. Traditional & Indigenous Alternative & Fringe Medicine Ethics & Law	CUNNINGHAM, Timothy ( – 1789)
1779	Mémoire sur la découverte du magnétisme animal. Traditional & Indigenous Alternative & Fringe Medicine	MESMER, Franz Anton (1734 – 1815)
1784	Rapport des commissaires chargés par le roi, de l’examen du magnétisme animal. Edited by Antoine Laurent Lavoisier. Traditional & Indigenous Alternative & Fringe Medicine	LAVOISIER, Antoine Laurent de (1743 – 1794) FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706 – 1790)
1790	Essays on fashionable diseases. The dangerous effects of hot and crouded rooms. The cloathing of invalids. Lady and gentlemen doctors. And on quacks and quackery. With the genuine patent prescriptions of Dr. James's fever power, Tickell's aetherial spirit, & Godbold's balsam, taken from the Rolls in Chancery, and under the seal of the proper officers; and also the ingredients and compostion of many of the most celebrated quack nostrums, as analized by several of the best chemists in Europe. By James M. Adair, Formerly M.D.... With a dedication to Philip Thicknesse ... To which is added a dramatic dialogue. Published for the benefit of the tin-miners in Cornwal Traditional & Indigenous Europe & United Kingdom Alternative & Fringe Medicine Pharmacology & Therapeutics	ADAIR, James Makittrick (1728 – 1802)
1798	The influence of metallic tractors on the human body, in removing various painful inflammatory diseases, such as rheumatism, pleurisy, some gouty affections, &c. &c: Lately discovered by Dr. Perkins, of North America; and demonstrated in a series of experiments and observations....by which the importance of the discovery is fully ascertained, and a new field of enquiry opened in the modern science of Galvanism, or animal electricity Traditional & Indigenous United States Rheumatology, Rehab & Pain Pharmacology & Therapeutics	PERKINS, Benjamin Douglas (1774 – 1810)
1800	Of the imagination, as a cause and as a cure of disorders of the body; exemplified by fictitious tractors, and epidemical convulsions. Read to the Literary and Philosophical Society of Bath. Traditional & Indigenous Alternative & Fringe Medicine	HAYGARTH, John (1740 – 1827)
1803	A poetical petition against tractorising trumpery and the Perkinistic institution: In four cantos. Most respectfully addressed to the Royal College of Physicians. Traditional & Indigenous Alternative & Fringe Medicine Arts, Literature & Humanities Zoology & Animal Sciences	FESSENDEN, Thomas Green (1771 – 1837)
c. 1839	Deadly adulteration and slow poisoning unmasked; or, Disease and death in the pot and the bottle; in which the blood-empoisoning and life-destroying adulterations of wines, spirits, beer, bread, flour, tea, sugar, spices, cheese-mongery, pastry, confectionary medicines, &c. &c. &c. are laid open to the public, with tests or methods for the ascertaining and detecting the fraudulent and deleterious adulterations and the good and bad qualities of those articles: with an exposé of medical empiricism and imposture, quacks and quackery, regular and irregular, legitimate and illegitimate: and the frauds and mal-practices of the pawn-brokers and madhouse keepers. New edition Traditional & Indigenous Alternative & Fringe Medicine Pharmacology & Therapeutics Ethics & Law	ANONYMOUS
1842	Satanic agency and mesmerism reviewed. In a Letter to the Rev. H. Mc. Neile A.M. of Liverpool: In reply to a sermon preached by him in St. Jude's Church, Liverpool, on Sunday, April 10th, 1842. Traditional & Indigenous Alternative & Fringe Medicine	BRAID, James (1795 – 1860)
1842	Homoeópathy, and its kindred delusions; Two lectures delivered before the Boston Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Traditional & Indigenous Alternative & Fringe Medicine	HOLMES, Oliver Wendell Sr. (1809 – 1894)
1881	Nederlands Tijdschrift tegen de Kwakzalverij. Vol. 1- . Traditional & Indigenous Europe & United Kingdom Alternative & Fringe Medicine Periodicals & Publishing	VERENIGING TEGEN DE KWAKZALVERIJ
1903	Das Kurpfuschertum. Eine medizin-geschichtliche Studie. Traditional & Indigenous Alternative & Fringe Medicine	MAGNUS, Hugo Friedrich (1842 – 1907)
1905	Die Kurierfreiheit und das Recht auf den eigenen Körper. Ein geschichtlicher Beitrag zum Kampf gegen das Kurpfuschertum. Traditional & Indigenous Alternative & Fringe Medicine	MAGNUS, Hugo Friedrich (1842 – 1907)
1909	Secret remedies, what they cost and what they contain. Based on analyses made for the British Medical Association. Traditional & Indigenous Alternative & Fringe Medicine Pharmacology & Therapeutics	BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
1911–1936	Nostrums and quackery: Articles on the nostrum evil and quackery reprinted from the Journal of the American Medical Association. 3 vols. Traditional & Indigenous Alternative & Fringe Medicine Pharmacology & Therapeutics	CRAMP, Arthur Joseph (1872 – 1951)
1923	Greffes testiculaires Traditional & Indigenous Alternative & Fringe Medicine	VORONOFF, Serge (1866 – 1951)
1925	The medical follies: An analysis of the foibles of some healing cults: Including osteopathy, homeopathy, chiropractic, and the electronic reactions of Abrams, with Essays on the antivivisectionists, health legislation, physical culture, birth control, and rejuvenation. Traditional & Indigenous Alternative & Fringe Medicine	FISHBEIN, Morris (1889 – 1976)
1926	Ueber Versuche, schwere Formen der Tuberkulose durch diätetische Behandlung zu beeinflussen. Traditional & Indigenous Plagues & Epidemics	SAUERBRUCH, Ernst Ferdinand (1875 – 1951) GERSON, Max (1881 – 1959) & et al.
1927	The new medical follies: An encyclopedia of cultism and quackery in these United States, with essays on the cult of beauty, the craze for reduction, rejuvenation, eclecticism, bread and dietary fads, physical therapy, and a forecast as to the physician of the future. Traditional & Indigenous Alternative & Fringe Medicine	FISHBEIN, Morris (1889 – 1976)
1928	The quacks of old London. Traditional & Indigenous Alternative & Fringe Medicine Social & Political History	THOMPSON, Charles John Samuel (1862 – 1943)
1961	The natural history of quackery. Traditional & Indigenous Alternative & Fringe Medicine	JAMESON, Eric
1961	The toadstool millionaires. Traditional & Indigenous Alternative & Fringe Medicine Pharmacology & Therapeutics	YOUNG, James Harvey (1915 – 2006)
1967	The medical messiahs. A social history of health quackery in twentieth-century America. Traditional & Indigenous Alternative & Fringe Medicine Social & Political History	YOUNG, James Harvey (1915 – 2006)
1979	Female complaints: Lydia Pinkham and the business of women's medicine. Traditional & Indigenous Alternative & Fringe Medicine Pharmacology & Therapeutics Women & Gender	STAGE, Sarah
1989	Health for sale: Quackery in England 1660-1850. Traditional & Indigenous Europe & United Kingdom Alternative & Fringe Medicine Social & Political History	PORTER, Roy Sydney (1946 – 2002)
1991	The great American medicine show: Being an illustrated history of hucksters, healers, health evangelists and heroes from plymouth rock to the present. Traditional & Indigenous United States Alternative & Fringe Medicine Arts, Literature & Humanities	ARMSTRONG, David ARMSTRONG, Elizabeth Metger
2002	"Der Charlatan strebt nicht nach Wahrheit, er verlangt nur nach Geld". Zur Auseinandersetzung zwischen naturwissenschaftlicher Medizin und Laienmedizin im deutschen Kaiserreich am Beispiel von Hypnotismus und Heilmagnetismus. Traditional & Indigenous Alternative & Fringe Medicine Social & Political History	TEICHLER, Jens-Uwe
2006	Medical charlatanism in early modern Italy. Traditional & Indigenous Europe & United Kingdom Alternative & Fringe Medicine	GENTILCORE, David (1961 – )
2006	A most amazing scene of wonders: Electricity and enlightenment in early America. Traditional & Indigenous United States Physiology & Embryology	DELBOURGO, James
2006	Bad medicine: Doctors doing harm since Hippocrates. Traditional & Indigenous Alternative & Fringe Medicine Ethics & Law Historiography & General Works	WOOTTON, David (1952 – )
2007	Women, medicine and theatre, 1500-1750: Literary mountebanks and performing quacks. Traditional & Indigenous Alternative & Fringe Medicine Arts, Literature & Humanities Zoology & Animal Sciences Women & Gender	KATRIZKY, M. A.
2008	The casebooks project: A digital edition of Simon Forman's & Richard Napier's medical records 1596-1634. Lauren Kassell, Project Director. Traditional & Indigenous Europe & United Kingdom Alternative & Fringe Medicine Diagnostics & Imaging	FORMAN, Simon (1552 – 1611) NAPIER, Richard (1559 – 1634) KASSELL, Lauren
2011	Chevalier John Taylor, England's early oculist: Pretender or pioneer? Traditional & Indigenous Ophthalmology & Vision	ALBERT, Daniel Myron (1936 – ) ATZEN, Sarah L.
2018	The patent medicines industry in Georgian England: Constructing the market by the potency of print. Traditional & Indigenous Europe & United Kingdom Alternative & Fringe Medicine Pharmacology & Therapeutics Periodicals & Publishing Zoology & Animal Sciences	MACKINTOSH, Alan