Chicago v. Quacks

In Chicago, the Tribune, big newspaper, did valuable work last week, as it did 13 years ago. It investigated the medical quacks, impostors, charlatans, "specialists," "old Docs," "health institutes" of the city, flayed them all and sundry, laid bare their foul and intricate inner workings. Chicago for a period was almost clean of these pseudo-medics, some of whom were regularly licensed physicians with debased practices. Many had been deprived of their onetime licenses for malpractice. Many were merely pornerastic laymen with a smattering of technical...

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