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JAMA Revisited January 1, 1921 baths, for oil or mud baths, for light or electric baths but merely plain baths—dirt removing, germ removing baths—not Saturday night but every night baths. It is of course unnecessary to tell the scientific reader that Domestic Engineering is an elite and el- Pharmaceutical Barnums egant name for “plumbing.” Well—we wish it success in this cam- Does the public love to be humbugged? We doubt it. That we, paign. Prospects begin to...
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American Medical Association
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Copyright 2021 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved.
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0098-7484
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1538-3598
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10.1001/jama.2020.17726
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JAMA Revisited January 1, 1921 baths, for oil or mud baths, for light or electric baths but merely plain baths—dirt removing, germ removing baths—not Saturday night but every night baths. It is of course unnecessary to tell the scientific reader that Domestic Engineering is an elite and el- Pharmaceutical Barnums egant name for “plumbing.” Well—we wish it success in this cam- Does the public love to be humbugged? We doubt it. That we, paign. Prospects begin to look bright for a clean year in 1921. As whether sage or fool, are humbugged is undeniable. We are hum- the shoemaker says: “There’s nothing like leather.” bugged just to the extent that we are ignorant. There lies one of the most powerful factors operating to the advantage of the “pat- Methyl Alcohol Versus “Wood” Alcohol ent medicine” maker and the quack. The layman’s ignorance of The untoward consequences to human life which have fol- the possibilities and limitations of drugs is wide and deep. Hence lowed the intake of fluids containing methyl alcohol in the last the ease with which he is fooled on this subject. A seeming frank- few years, and particularly since the prohibition laws went into ness in

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