Note 6 — Chapter IV
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As for operators on the teeth, they have multiplied exceedingly in the land. Their successful career is a biting satire on the credulity of their supporters.
American Quackery.—The cost for advertising quack medicines in the United States, annually, is estimated at 200,000 dollars. A peck of pills per day is considered necessary for Boston, and half a bushel for New York. On an average, only one in twenty-five who take them is actually sick; and the proportion of those dispensing with some necessary of life to purchase nostrums, which do them a positive injury, is in the ratio of eighty-seven to every one hundred throughout the country.