To compound its low status in the medical hierarchy, travel medicine has to rely on statistics that are patchy at best.

Recover here even with persistent ailment:A doctor sets a stall in front of the medicine shop, quietly waiting for those"irrational patients".

As another master, Stendhal, remarked in his autobiography "Memoirs of an Egotist," "Great success is not possible without a certain degree of shamelessness, and even of out-and-out charlatanism."