Doubtful Theories, Drastic Therapies: Autointoxication and Faddism in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
secondary literature · 1995
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SUMMARY
Sullivan-Fowler's 1995 history is the appropriate scholarly account of the autointoxication theory and the commercial faddism it produced. The PubMed record lists 'C A Tyrrell' as a personal-name subject of the article, confirming that Tyrrell is among the figures it treats. The paper situates the theory within the late-19th and early-20th-century vogue for drastic intestinal therapies and documents its decline as the absorption mechanism it required failed to hold. Identifiers confirmed against the PubMed record (PMID 7665877) and the Crossref record (DOI 10.1093/jhmas/50.3.364): Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, volume 50, issue 3, pages 364-390, 1995.
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The Sullivan-Fowler 1995 Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences article is the historical-context source for the autointoxication vogue in which the J.B.L. Cascade was sold. It documents the theory’s prominence, the drastic intestinal therapies marketed on it, and its eventual abandonment, and the PubMed indexing lists Tyrrell among its named subjects. The article supports the case’s placement of the Cascade within a wider commercial faddism rather than as an isolated device. Identifiers confirmed against PubMed (PMID 7665877) and Crossref (DOI 10.1093/jhmas/50.3.364).