Medicine Quackery

Quackery the characteristic practice of quacks or charlatans who pretend to knowledge and skill that they do not possess particularly in medicine. Quackery is most often used to denote the peddling of the cure alls described above.

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Quacks prescribe consumers to take medicine more than needed and compel them to buy more medicine.

Medicine quackery. They lack knowledge about the date of expiry of medicine. Quackery continues even today. Quackery can be explained in the following points.

Quackery is the promotion of false and unproven health schemes for a profit. It refers to the intake of medicines more than needed. Over dose of medicine.

It is injurious to health. Based partly on an ancient greek belief that all forms of sickness were results of imbalances in the humors phlegm yellow bile black bile and blood bloodletting has been the quackery of choice for more than 2 500 years. Quackery bogus therapy health fraud false representation of a substance device or therapeutic system as being beneficial in treating a medical condition eg snake oil remedies diagnosing a disease or maintaining a state of health.

It is rooted in the traditions of the marketplace with commercialism overwhelming professionalism in the marketing of alternative medicine. The quack makes exaggerated claims about his or her ability to heal disease generally for financial gain. To make it in the quackery business as long as bloodletting did you have to make bold statements about curing sickness and occasionally change the explanation of how the cure works.

Eliberate misrepresentation of the ability of a substance or device to prevent or treat disease. Use of date expired medicine. Quacks are untrained persons.

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