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CHAPTER I— 17 The Augean Stables of Therapeutics— The Remedy —Reason for Absence of Dignified Literary Style- Diploma Mills— "All but Holy"— Dr. Geo. H. Sim- mons' Opinion— American Medical Association Not Tyrannical— Therapeutics a Deplorable Muddle. CHAPTER II— Graft and Failurephobia 25 The Commercial Spirit— Commercialism in Medicine —Stock Company Medical Colleges— Graft in Medi- cines, Drugs and Nostrums— Encyclopedia Graft— "Get-Rich-Quick" Propositions— Paradoxes in Char- acter of Shysters— Money Madness— Professional Failurephobia— The Fortunate Few and the Unfor- tunate Many— A Cause of Quackery— The Grafter's Herald— The World's Standard— Solitary Confine- ment—The Prisoner's Dream— Working up a Cough —Situation Appalling Among St. Louis Physicians —A Moral Pointed. CHAPTER III— Why Quacks Flourish "SI American Public Generally Intelligent— But Densely Ignorant in Important Particulars— Cotton Mather and Witchcraft— A.B.s, A.M.s, M.D.s and Ph.D.s Espousing Christian Science, Chiropractics and Os- teopathy—Gullibility of the College Bred— The Ig- norant Suspicious of New Things— The Educated Man's Creed— Dearth of Therapeutic Knowledge by the Laity— Is the Medical Profession to Blame?— Physician's Arguments Controvertible — Host of In- competents Among the Regular Physicians— Report of Committee on Medical Colleges— The "Big Doc- tors"— Doc Booze— The "Leading Doctor"— Osier's Drug Nihilism— The X-Ray Graft. [9]