Neatorama has featured many articles about patent...  ...d many articles about patent medicine, snake oil, quackery , and dangerous cure-alls from the past. Those sto...  ...alverij (VtdK), translated as The Society Against Quackery , formed to fight the unscientific hucksterism tha...  ...is initial bit of lite...

The patent medicines of yesteryear contained some horrific ingredients, such as arsenic, mercury, lead, and radium, and some that could get you arrested today. They rarely cured anything, but they made people feel better...

The following is an article from the book Uncle Jo...  ...rust of doctors. The medical profession called it quackery . The word is thought to originate either from the...  ...r both patient and surgeon. But was it the end of quackery ? Not by a long shot. Here are a few “modern...

John Harvey Kellogg--yes, one of the Kellogg brothers behind the cereal company--invented corn flakes, advocated vegetarianism and...well, let's just say that he had some weird views about sex. Not especially unusual vie...

Yes, these are fleams. What's a fleam, you ask? Why, just step right up, my friend, and I will tell you. Fleams are the latest thing in bloodletting. Are your humours out of balance? Got too much blood in your body? Put...

The Science Museum of Minnesota obtained the colle...  ...innesota obtained the collection of the Museum of Quackery and Medical Frauds and set it up as the "Question...