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Good News, If True

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GOOD NEWS, IF TRUE.—

The Water Cure Journal, one of the numerous periodicals issued by Messrs. Fowler & Wells,1 the phrenologists, predicts that the country will soon be well supplied with female physicians, and that within ten years from the time that the country is so supplied, nine-tenths of the prevalent fatal diseases will disappear altogether, or become mild and trivial ailments.


Notes:

1. Lorenzo Niles Fowler (1811–1896) and his brother-in-law Samuel R. Wells (1809–1887) were practitioners of phrenology, a pseudoscience popular in the nineteenth century. They owned and operated the Phrenological Depot on Broadway, which contained phrenological materials and books and offered phrenological readings. They also operated a printing business and were responsible for printing the expanded second edition of Leaves of Grass (1856). In addition, they published Life Illustrated, The American Phrenological Journal, and The Water Cure Journal. Whitman contributed to both Life Illustrated and The Phrenological Journal[back]

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