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FISHBEIN, Morris Medical Follies
Boni & Liveright, New York , 1925,
FISHBEIN, Morris. The Medical Follies: An Analysis of the Foibles of the 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. New York: Boni& Liveright, 1927. 8th printing. Pp. [1]-223,(1). 8vo, brown cloth cover w ith gilt lettering to spin, gilt decoration to cover. "Dr. Fishbein's new excursion into the borderlands of medical science includes an illuminating investigation of the beauty shop industry, the diverting history of the fickle perfect thirty-six; a study of the present status of rejuvenation; the weight reduction craze; Bread and The Dietary Fads; Physical Therapy; and other matters, among which the most useful and entertaining is the first formal dictionary of Cultism and Quackery." -from the dj. Chapters: 1. The Medicine Man - an introduction; 2. Elisha Perkins and his Wonderful Tractors; 3. The Rise and Fall of Homeopathy; 4. Osteopathy; 5. Chiropractic; 6. The Quackery of the Abrams Box; 7. Fads in Health Legislation; 8. Birth Control:an Unsolved Problem; 9. The Antivivisectionist and Animal Experimentation; 10. The Truth about Rejuvenation; 11. "Physical Culture" and Bernarr MacFa dden; 12. The Big Muscle Boys; 13. The Medical Mistakes of the Press; 14. The Science of Healing. Minor wear to edges, else vg in chipped, taped dj. 40.00
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