Word: quack
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Dates: during 1922-1922
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...centuries; in Sir Arthur's wake there will almost certainly spring up a number of fraudulent mediums. This is apparently an evil which necessarily accompanies any kind of popular interest in an idea difficult to understand. In which last category all new ideas fall; the astrologers, phrenologists, palmists, and quack doctors who pursue their business profitably even in this 'enlightened' period, indicate that spiritualism is not the only subject which has its take progenitors...