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Rh CHAPTER IV— 51

An Astounding Array of Therapeutic Systems—Diet—Water—Optics—Hemotherapy—Consumption Cures—Placebos—Inconsistencies and Contradictions—Osier's Opinion of Appendicitis—Fair Statement of Limitations in Medicine Desirable.

CHAPTER V— 57

The "Great Nerve Specialist"—The Professional Witness a Jonah—The "Railway Spine"—Is it Lack of Fairness and Honesty or Lack of Skill and Learning?—Destruction of Fine Herds of Cattle Without Compensation—Koch's Dictum and Denial—Koch's Tuberculin—The Serum Tribe—Stupendous Sale of Nostrums—Druggist's Arguments—Use of Proprietary Medicines Stimulates Sale of Nostrums.

CHAPTER VI— 62

Suggestive Therapeutics Chief Stock in Trade—Advice of a Medical College President—Disease Prevention Rather than Cure—Hygienic Living—The Medical Pretender—"Dangerous Diagnosis" Graft—Great Flourish of Trumpets—No "Starving Time" for Him—"Big Operations"—Mutilating the Human Body—Dr. C. W. Oviatt's Views—Dr. Maurice H. Richardson's Incisive Statements—Crying Need for Reform—Surgery that is Useless, Conscienceless and for Purely Commercial Ends—Spirit of Surgical Graft Especially in the West—Fee-Splitting and Commissions—A Nation of "Dollar-Chasers"—The Public's Share of Responsibility—Senn's Advice—The "Surgical Conscience." [10]