The Prince of Quacks and How He Captivated London

Guests were paraded past one electrical marvel after another: flint glass jars blazing with captive sparks, gilded dragons breathing electrical fire, a gilded throne on which Graham’s patients sat to receive their curative shocks. The most infamous feature of the Temple of Health was Graham’s Celestial Bed. With his devices and his medicines, Graham claimed to have “an absolute command over the health, functions and diseases of the human body.”

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