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Without and Within: Victorian Mourning and Treatment of the Dead Main Menu Fleeing Death: Victorian Paranoia Concerning Public Health First Section Dying Well and Loved: At the Moment of Death and Mourning Second Section Wearing and Burying Death: Fashion, Mourning, and Public Displays of Death Third Section Up and Down the Stair with Burke and Hare: Body-Snatching Fourth Section Weird Science: Anatomical Use of the Dead Fifth Section Works Cited/Full-Texts/Further Readings

Examples and Satire Surrounding Quackery

58 Fleeing Death: Victorian Paranoia Concerning Public Health First Section

Though we have seen examples of quackery within printed magazines and articles, we have not explored the counter-reaction to quack-cures. In this slideshow we can see how quackery was connected to economic and political concerns, the absurdity of those that use cures whilst ignoring the effects they may produce, and finally an American example of quackery concerning the need to stabilize sexual urges and passions.

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Cures and Quackery Kyle Brett
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Electric Belt from Sears FOR NERVOUS DISEASES of all kinds in men and women, to reach the nerve centers for the cure of all nervous disorders the Heidelberg Electric Belt stands alone. For weakness in men and women, personal exhaustion bringing back lost strength and power, over brain work, vital , impotency, rheumatism, sciatica, lame back, railroad back, insomnia, melancholia, kidney disorder, Bright's disease, dyspepsia, disorders of the liver, female weakness, poor circulation, weak heart action and almost every known disease and weakness. The constant soothing alternating electric current is ever at worktouching the weak spots, building up the system, stimulating the circulation. ALL THAT ELECTRICITY WILL DO FOR YOU WILL BE RECEIVED through the use of our electric belt.
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