QUACKS – A VILE RACE

QUACK TRACK EXCLUSIVE

Quacks have been around since time immemorial and continue to flourish. Wherever there are medical doctors, you are sure to find quacks almost like a parallel industry.

They claim to know everything in the art of healing and justify their bogus credentials and superstitions as experience. There is no ailment or disorder against which they don’t possess a cure. The cures they offer are strange. Whether you want old age restored to youth or vigor of a young man in an old body, sight restored in a blind man or hair on a bald head, they seem to know it all.

Rarely do they go through any formal education. They draw their knowledge of medicine from imagination, superstition, and God. Usually, their false power to heal comes into force to escape the life of poverty and hardship. Their promises to cure and their achievements are made in public and credulous people who fall into the trap forget that for one who is cured, several die. There is no denying that some accidental cures do happen.

There are different kinds of quacks in our society. For example, you have the bonesetters who without possessing any medical knowledge of bones pretend to possess an art that is a guarded family secret from generations. The ignorant sometimes expose themselves to this art and return with fractured bone or a twisted limb.

Another class of quacks utter some gibberish and make mystical signs assuring the patient of his health and cure.  Guided by their own knowledge, some use dangerous poisons and heavy metals such as mercury, arsenic, lead, magnesium, etc., that can prove deadly in the hands of those unaware of their properties.

Some lazy quacks offer a universal remedy for all ailments and some people are fools enough to take it. They go by the principle that all maladies originate from one source and the cure too has to be one. It is really strange how people when it comes to their health, they trust and surrender to these quacks but If they need to repair a watch, a car or a TV they trust none but a qualified specialist.

Street quacks mint money offering cures for impotence and erectile dysfunction. The remedies are wild even in imagination such as rooster’s flesh fried in crocodile semen, eating animal privates, some potions made of a mix of roots of plants, etc. There are several poor victims of ignorance and fraud who have destroyed their health forever by visiting these quacks but are unwilling to complain to the authorities or make public their suffering out of fear of exposing themselves.

As long as quackery is allowed or tolerated by governments there is no hope that the public would be protected from its dreadful consequences. One should realize that life is not our own as several others in the family and society depend on it. One should not visit such quacks when it comes to matters of health and deprive themselves of expert advice from qualified doctors.