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Medical Meddlers, Mediums and Magicians: The Victorian Age of Credulity
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Medical Meddlers, Mediums and Magicians: The Victorian Age of Credulity Hardcover - 2012

by Souter, Dr. Keith


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An exploration of how and why an era underpinned by science and logic was also so rife with quacks and conjurers

The Victorians had a thirst for knowledge, which drove them to explore the unchartered corners of the world, plumb the unfathomable depths of science, discover evolution, and create some of the engineering and architectural marvels of the world. Yet this open-mindedness also at times made them utterly gullible. Because of their closeness to disease and the ever-present threat of their own mortality, it was inevitable that they would be open to the claims of quacks who promised all kinds of panaceas, and to mediums who offered a means of communicating with the dead. So too did it make them eager for diversion and entertainment by the conjurers and illusionists of the great music halls. Strangely, it was through the magic-making skill of the conjurers that the activities of many of the tricksters and fraudulent mediums finally came to be exposed. This look at the Victorians' gullibility in matters of life, death, and entertainment is a box of delights for all students of Victoriana.

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  • Title Medical Meddlers, Mediums and Magicians: The Victorian Age of Credulity
  • Author Souter, Dr. Keith
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition; F
  • Pages 192
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher The History Press, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England
  • Date 2012
  • ISBN 9780752461151

About the author

Keith Souter is a retired general practitioner and the author of 20 books, including The Little Book of Genius.
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