Quack Links

CONTEMPORARY QUACKBUSTERS HISTORY COLLECTION AND CARE EPHEMERA AND GRAPHICS MUSEUMS, LIBRARIES AND EXHIBITS TOPICS - MORE LINK LISTS ON-SITE

Stories on the QMD Museum St. Anthony Main location closure:

From the BBC... CLICK HERE

Listen to the NPR Story about Bob McCoy's retirement CLICK HERE

READ Voice of America article about Bob McCoy's retirement HERE

Contemporary Quackbusters

Welcome to the Internet FDA - Great article on how to spot Health Fraud
Quackwatch Home Page by Dr. Stephen Barrett...perhaps the dean of the today's anti-quackery movement in the U.S.
National Council Against Health Fraud is a vital organization in the U.S. fighting medical quackery today.
The Alternative Medicine Fraud Page - University of Pittsburgh site
American Council on Science and Health
Healthwatcher.net - Great site from Canada
Medical Urban Legends at Snopes.com*
The Quack Files - a quackery site with an excellent resource section, in English and Danish
Confessions of a Quackbuster blog*
The Saul Green Files Renouned debunker of pseudo-science and quackery.
DC's Improbable Science Page from the UK debunks the SCAMs*
National Institute of Health - Medline Plus: Health Fraud links
National Institute on Aging - "How to Spot Health Fraud"
Federal Trade Commission - "Miracle Health Claims: Add a Dose of Skepticism"
Quack machines - Gizmos - Magnets: A cure for all diseases, Canadian style
James Randi Educational Foundation Debunking pseudo-science of all kinds
SkepticWiki* Web community Encyclopedia of Science and Critical Thinking
Australian Skeptics' Qakatak
Healthfinder.gov- reliable sources of health information from the US Dept. of HHS*
DietFraud.com*
Anti-Quackery Webring

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History

American Artifacts Scientific Medical & Mechanical Antiques - publisher of bi-monthly newsletter; articles and devices for-sale with historic descriptions posted on-line
Chirobase: A Skeptical Guide to Chiropractic History, Theories, and Current Practices
by Stephen Barrett, M.D., William T. Jarvis, Ph.D., and Charles E. DuVall Jr., D.C.
Cornell University MOA Journal Collection magazines from the 1800's including Scientific American
DRY DRUNK: The Culture of Tobacco in 17th-and 18th-century Europe at The New York Public Library
Dynamize Me! Medical Quackery Past And Present a feature by Glen Callender published in The Peak, Volume 95, Issue 12 March 24, 1997
FOUR EPOCHS OF WOMAN'S LIFE: A Study in Hygiene by Anna M. Galbraith, M.D., 1901, rev. 1915 (e-book, hypertext)
"From Quackery to Bacteriology: The Emergence of Modern Medicine in the 19th Century: An Exhibition." by Barbara Floyd, University Archivist at The University of Toledo.
The Healing Power of Placebos by Tamar Nordenberg
The History of Nutrition Collection of Vanderbilt University Medical Center Library
provides links to selected reports (descriptions and images) of historically significant nutritional research held in its collections.
The History and Future of Women's Health by PHS Office of Women’s Health
Johann Andreas Eisenbart "the German father of all quack doctors" -
recommended by Brigitte Aust
Karolinska Institute Library History of Biomedicine - the meta-collection of history of medicine links.
Massage and the Original Swedish Movements by Kurre W.Ostrom at the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library
Medical Milestones of the Last Millennium by Carol Lewis
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions Vol. III by Charles Mackay - e-text
National Library of Medicine and Science
Nebraska Historical Society - Quack Medical Devices Page with photos*
Millenium Project: Medical Frauds - 500+ links to quackery on the net
"Oxygen Therapy, the First 150 Years: Curiosities, Quackeries, and Other Historical Trivia" by Lawrence Martin, M.D., Chief of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the Mt. Sinai Medical Center in Cleveland, OH.
Reliable Agencies and Organizations at Quackwatch.com
Spondylotherapy Simplified by Alva Emery Gregory, M.D., 1922 - e-text
Wikipedia entry on Quackery*
WWW Virtual Library for the History of Science, Technology & Medicine Excellent!

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Ephemera and Graphics

Advertising Cards at the Vanderbilt Medical Center
Bob Sokol's medical quackery and curio page
Images from the History of Medicine, a searchable database from the History of Medicine Division and the National Library of Medicine.
Here Today, Here Tomorrow: Varieties of Medical Ephemera, The Online Version of an Exhibit Held at the National Library of Medicine, May 22 through September 11, 1995

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Museums, Libraries and Exhibits

The oldest Psychograph (phrenology machine) that we know of is displayed at the Fairlawn Museum in Superior, Wisconsin. Henry Lavery, inventor of the Psychograph, is a native of Superior.

AMA History and Timelines
American Institute of the History of Pharmacy
The Bakken Library maintains a special collection of quack devices.
Jeff Behary's Turn Of The Century Electrotherapy Museum - private collector with an extensive on-line collection of violet ray (ultra-violet) and related electrotherapy devices including images and list of manufacturers
Canadian Museum of Civilization: Health
Excerpt from Historical Hobbies for the Pharmacist, 1994
Exhibitions in the History of Medicine from the National Library of Medicine
FDA Milestones in Women's Health: Looking Back as We Move into the New Millennium
Historical Health Physics Instrumentation and Radioactive Quack Cures Collection
Holmes Medical Museum in Alabama.*
Kansas Museum of History*
Medical Resources from the Mulford Library Collection
Musée McCord Cures and Quackery: The Rise of Patent Medicines-Virtual Tour!*
Museum of Menstruation
The Mütter Museum*
National Museum of Health and Medicine - explore a medical instruments exhibit!
Off the Air: Shockwave Radio Theatre filmed at our museum and
The Pavek Museum of Broadcasting (also in the Twin Cities MN) featuring Dr. Science!
Radio-Guy - Really fun and fascinating collector's site *
Rose Melnik Medical Museum - in Youngstown, Ohio
The Shoe Museum at the Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine
The Vibrator Museum *
Web Exhibits Catalog: History of Science

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Collection and Care

American Medical Association - Fraud Archives *
Braceface at Antique Medical, the site of collector Michael Echols
CollectMedicalAntiques.com
The Ephemera Society of America
Ebay.com - Medical Device Auctions
MedicalAntiques.com - Emphasis on civil war medicine.
Medical Antiques Scientifica: An Antique Medical, Surgical and Dental Resource Site
Phisick - Medical Collector Link Page *

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