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Here’s a sad and curious tale from a Weird Calderdale chapter on local quacks that was left out due to space constraints… John Holmes was a ‘dispenser of herbs, barks, draughts’ and other unconventional treatments, though his critics, and there were many, would call him a quack.[i] Details are sketchy, but he came to theContinue reading “The Brighouse Bigamist Quack”