DIRECTORY OF QUACKS
25,000 CHARLATANS EXPOSED
MENACE OF “HUMAN ’ VULTURES.
NEW YORK, August 27. Americans seeking medical advice ar» warned first to consult the directory of quacks compiled by tho National Better Business Bureau and the New York Department of Health, in which are set down the names and histories of 25,000 medical charlatans.’ ' This new “ rogues’ gallery of medicine ” is hailed by Dr Shirley Wynne, Health Commissioner of New York, as one of tho most important strides made in the drive to rid the city of the “human vultures who prey oh well and ill alike, and who are rightly regarded as one of the most dangerous of all health menaces.”
The advent of radio, over which they are permitted to broadcast, has helped the quacks to thrive greatly in recent years until their activities have now. become really dangerous to the health of the community. With these “ camp followers of tho march of science ’ catalogued, and tho names of their tonics, patent medicines, and cures on the file, quackery, it is believed, has been dealt a severe blow.
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Evening Star, Issue 20587, 12 September 1930, Page 1
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