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Quackery is important because through it vast numbers of our people have sought to bolster or restore their health and because it affords insight into an anti-rational approach to one of the key problems of life.

— James Harvey Young The Toadstool Millionaires: A Social History of Patent Medicines in America Before Federal Regulation (1961)

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Some years later, I yielded completely to the impulse, persuaded that medical quackery has been—and is—an important theme in American social and intellectual history.

The Toadstool Millionaires: A Social History of Patent Medicines in America Before Federal Regulation (1961)

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