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This authoritative and entertaining exhibition catalogue explores the long visual history of a rich and neglected topic: medical quackery, from the itinerant seller of nostrums four centuries ago to the unsolicited spam of today's Internet. Presenting a broad variety of material - prints by William Hogarth and Honore Daumier, posters by Jules Cheret and Maxwell Parrish, and books by H.G. Wells and S. Weir Mitchell -"Quack, Quack, Quack" offers a delightful look at the remarkable artistry and elaborate language quacks used to peddle their wares: lavish pronouncements, excessive postures and imaginatively exalted therapeutic promises. The earliest quacks, we see, dressed elaborately, inflated their credentials, and embraced an extravagant vocabulary to market their panaceas, at times claiming their pills and salves would cure all disease. They were succeeded in short order by the makers of proprietary medicines, many of whom adopted quack-style promotional methods while introducing new ones of their own. These vendors advertized widely -often with celebrity testimonials - publishing broadsides, posters, pamphlets and manifestos to amplify their claims. And though recent strides in medicine meant that most people avoid quacks, and efforts have been made to rid society of patent-medicine makers, the quack survives to the present day, promising to make us all thinner, better-looking, healthier, or more sexually potent. This catalogue - and the 2002 New York City Grolier Club exhibition it originally accompanied - are fascinating reminders of how long such promises have been with us and in how many unique and scintillating ways they've been made.
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• William M. Abbott
• Donald Abrams
• Lori Arviso Alvord
• John Baldwin
• William Blaisdell
• Sharon Bogerty
• William Brody
• Linda Hawes Clever
• Frances Conley
• William P. Creger
• Mark DeAntonio
• Michael R. DeBaun
• Jacob Eapen
• Laura Esserman
• Sheri Fink
• Rosemary Flores
• Denham Harman
• Bert Duane Johnson
• Philip Lee
• Ronald Levy
• Linda Liau
• Eduardo Luque
• Yvonne Maldonado
• Fernando Mendoza
• J.D. Northway
• Ann Stuart Orloff
• Scott Parazynski
• Sidney Raffel
• Neil Resnick
• Victor Richards
• Mack Roach
• Joe Sachs
• Debra Schwinn
• Belding Scribner
• Alexis Shelokov
• Linda M. Dairiki Shortliffe
• Eric Stark
• Irving Weissman
• Augustus A. White III
• Joe Wray.

Profiles of forty alumni of Stanford University School of Medicine who have devoted their careers to advancing medical science, education, and patient care.

Brief history from its early years in San Francisco through the last four decades of leadership in education, patient care, and scientific achievement.

• Remembrance of pain past
• Ode to an odious bird
• Legacy of a legend
• John Locke and the concept of matter as energy.