Secret Remedies What They Cost and What They Contain: Based on Analyses Made for the British Medical Association (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Secret Remedies What They Cost and What They Contain: Based on Analyses Made for the British Medical Association<br><br>It is not however only the poorer classes of the community who have a weakness for secret remedies and the ministration of quacks; the well-to-do and the highly-placed will often when not very ill take a curious pleasure in experimenting with mysterious compounds. In them it is perhaps to be traced to a hankering to break safely with orthodoxy; they scrupulously obey the law and the Church and Mrs. Grundy but will have their ?ing against medicine. Usually however people of these classes take to some system. It used to be electricity or hypnotism or some eccentricity of diet; nowadays it is more often Christian Science.<br><br>Judging from the relative number of secret remedies advertised for different complaints it would seem that the most attractive fields for exploitation by the patent medicine man are afforded by those diseases which are widely prevalent and sufficiently serious to cause considerable suffering and incapacity inasmuch as such disorders lend themselves to sensational descriptions of the dire consequences which will follow if the one and only real and certain cure is not purchased.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.