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Quacks and quackery

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The Medicine show

1974

A treatise on the management of the teeth

Benjamin James

1814

Quacks

Roy Sydney Porter

2000

Guide to the American Medical Association Historical Health Fraud and Alternative Medicine Collection

Arthur Wayne Hafner

1992

The big black book of 100 most common medical blunders

Boardroom Reports, Inc

2006

A Brief History Of Bad Medicine

Ian Schott

2012

Real or not

Ho, Andy Ph.D.

2005

Charlatan

Pope Brock

2008

Consumer health

Harold J. Cornacchia

1976

Junk science judo

Steven J. Milloy

2001

The doctors' dilemmas

Lasagna, Louis

1962

The biggest medical lie of the last 50 years

William Campbell Douglass

2008

Humbugs of New-York

David Meredith Reese

1838

Nostrums and quackery

American Medical Association.

1912

Tono-Bungay

H. G. Wells

1908 ★ 3.2

Morisoniana, or Family advisor of the British College of Health

James Morison, British College of Health

1829

The humours of a fair, or, A description of the early amusements in life

1819

Encyclopedia of hoaxes

Gordon Stein

1993

The funny side of physic

Addison Darre Crabtre

1872

A sketch, or, short description of Dr. Graham's medical apparatus, &c

Graham, James

1780

The hidden agenda

David Sneed

1991

Quack Doctor

Caroline Rance

2013

Sue Slate

Lee Lynch

1989

The quacks of old London

C. J. S. Thompson

1928

Healthy teeth

Marvin J. Schissel, John E. Dodes

1999

The day I went missing

Miller, Jennifer

2001

The great American fraud

Samuel Hopkins Adams, Samuel Adams

1906

Snake Oil, Hustlers and Hambones

Ann Anderson

2000

The billion $ swindle

Amram M. Ducovny

1969

Gideon Planish

Sinclair Lewis

1943