1879
Quackery - Medical Minstrels Performing for the Benefit of Their Former Patients - No Other Dead-Heads Admitted
Joseph KepplerAmerican (born Austria), 1838 - 1894
In a biting satire on the excessive promotion and irresponsible formulation of many proprietary medicines, Keppler leaves no group untouched, attacking regular physicians-the allopaths-and many practitioners of alternative systems: homeopaths, eclectics, vegetarians, phlebotomists, hydropaths, and even spirit mediums and Turkish bathers. The cartoonist takes pains to single out arsenic, calomel, laudanum, quinine, and morphine, placing them in the same league as quack medicines.
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