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The Medical Electricians

Autor Robert K. Waits
en Limba Engleză Paperback
George Augustus Scott, although he gained notoriety (and riches) selling 'electric' cure-alls, was a wide-ranging entrepreneur. Scott left behind legitimate legacies: successful manufacturing businesses in Massachusetts and London, and a famously unsuccessful mercantile cooperative in New York. The story of 'Dr. Scott, ' a quack peddler of Electric brushes, corsets, and belts, electric in name only, is intertwined with those of several other Victorian Medical Electricians. He mentored proteges who became infamous for quackery: Cornelius B. Harness, in England, and John R. Foran in America; and tangled with a feisty Brooklyn competitor, William C. Wilson, who later took up with Foran. George Scott was not a physician, and avoided referring to himself as Doctor except in his audacious advertisements. He did not seek personal publicity (an attribute rare among quacks) but was well known socially. Scott died a wealthy man at age 48, and his Pall Mall Electric business persisted for years, the last known advertisements appeared in the 1920s. Here are the advertisements and adventures of Scott, Harness, Wilson, Foran and their colleagues in quackery during the latter part of the Nineteenth Century."
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ISBN-13: 9781466346116
ISBN-10: 1466346116
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 189 x 246 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.6 kg
Editura: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform