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1. Sketches of imposture, deception, and credulity

Author(s):

Davenport, R. A. (Richard Alfred), 1777?-1852

Publication:

Philadelphia : G.B. Zieber & Co., 1845

Subject(s):

Superstitions
Deception

2. The displaying of supposed witchcraft: wherein is affirmed that there are many sorts of deceivers and impostors, and divers persons under a passive delusion of melancholy and fancy : but that there is a corporeal league made betwixt the devil and the witch, or that he sucks on the witches body, has carnal copulation, or that witches are turned into cats, dogs, raise tempests, or the like, is utterly denied and disproved : wherein also is handled, the existence of angels and spirits, the truth of apparitions, the nature of astral and sydereal spirits, the force of charms, and philters, with other abstruse matters

Author(s):

Webster, John, 1611-1682 author

Publication:

London : Printed by J.M. and are to be sold by the booksellers in London, 1677

Subject(s):

Witchcraft
Deception
Delusions

3. General orders. No. 239

Author(s):

United States. Adjutant-General's Office, author.

Publication:

[Washington?] : [publisher not identified], [1864]

Subject(s):

Military Personnel
Deception
American Civil War
United States
United States. Army

4. Misleading marketing of non-ACA health plans continued during COVID-19 special enrollment period

Author(s):

Palanker, Dania, author
Volk, JoAnn, author

Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : Georgetown University Health Policy Institute, Center on Health Insurance Reforms, October 2021

Subject(s):

Health Insurance Exchanges
Insurance, Health
Marketing of Health Services
COVID-19
Deception
United States
United States.

5. The result of a pretended operation upon a patient suffering from a delusion of a sexual character: operation for the cure of epispadias, case of perineal section for traumatic stricture, with a description of a new form of perineal staff, new method of treating a resilent [sic] and nodular stricture of the penile portion of the urethra

Author(s):

Horwitz, Orville, 1860-1912

Publication:

[Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott Company, 1894]

Subject(s):

Urethral Diseases -- surgery
Deception
Epispadias -- surgery
Urethral Stricture -- surgery

6. Remarkable case of deception: a woman professing to secrete nothing but charcoal and stones for a number of years, all the natural functions being arrested, and the deception unmasked

Author(s):

Sayre, Lewis A. (Lewis Albert), 1820-1900 author

Publication:

Albany : Steam Press of C. Van Benthuysen, 1863

Subject(s):

Factitious Disorders
Deception
Fraud

7. Lunatic asylums: their use and abuse : a true narrative

Author(s):

Titus, Ann H., author

Publication:

[New York?] : [publisher not identified], [1870]

Subject(s):

Commitment of Persons with Psychiatric Disorders
Deception
Titus, Ann H.

8. Simulation of insanity by the insane

Author(s):

Kiernan, James G. (James George), 1852-1923 author

Publication:

St. Louis : Carreras Steam Print, [1882?]

Subject(s):

Insanity Defense
Mental Disorders
Deception
Guiteau, Charles J. (Charles Julius), 1841-1882.