If Satan has ever succeeded in compressing a greater amount of concentrated mendacity into one set of human bodies above every other description, it
is in the advertising quacks. The coolness and deliberation with which they announce the most glaring falsehoods are really appalling. A recent
arrival in San Francisco, whose name might indicate that he had his origin in the Pontine marshes of Europe, announces himself as the "Late examining
physician of the Massachusetts Infirmary, Boston." This fellow has the impudence to publish that his charge to physicians in their own cases is $5.00!
Another genius in Philadelphia, of the bogus diploma breed, who claims to have founded a new system of practice and who calls himself a "Professor,"
advertises two elixers of his own make, one of which is for "all male diseases" and the other for "all female diseases"! In the list of preparations
which this wretch advertises for sale as the result of his own labors and discoveries, is ozone! |