The Great American Fraud

About this eBook

Author

Adams, Samuel Hopkins, 1871-1958

Title

The Great American Fraud The Patent Medicine Evil

Credits

Produced by David Widger

Language

English

LoC Class

RM: Medicine: Therapeutics, Pharmacology

Subject

Quacks and quackery

Category

Text

eBook-No.

44325

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44325

Release Date

December 1, 2013

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE GREAT AMERICAN FRAUD
2. 2.By Samuel Hopkins Adams — A Series of Articles on the Patent Medicine Evil, Reprinted from Collier's Weekly
3. 3.I. THE GREAT AMERICAN FRAUD. — Reprinted from Collier's Weekly, Oct. 7, 1905. — IMAGE ==>
4. 4.Drugs That Make Victims.
5. 5.As to Testimonials.
6. 6.The Magic "Red Clause."
7. 7.Fake Testimonials. — IMAGE ==> — IMAGE ==> A WINDOW EXHIBIT IN A CHICAGO DRUG STORE.
8. 8.The Doctors Are Investigating.
9. 9.What One Druggist Is Doing. — IMAGE ==> — PLEASE DO NOT ASK US
10. 10.A Post-Office Report.
11. 11.Health Boards and Analyses.
12. 12.II. PERUNA AND THE BRACERS. — Reprinted from Collier's Weekly, Oct. 28, 1905.
13. 13.What Peruna Is Made Of.
14. 14.The Government Forbids the Sale of Peruna to Indians. — DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, — OFFICE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, — C. F. LARRABEE, — IMAGE ==>
15. 15.Two Testimonials. — IMAGE ==> — A SALOON WINDOW DISPLAY AT AUBURN. N. Y.
16. 16.Medicine or Liquor? — IMAGE ==> — IMAGE ==> — REV. W. N. DUNHAM. — "REV." M. N. HOUGHTON.
17. 17.Some Alcohol Percentages.
18. 18.What the Government Can Do.
19. 19.III.—LIQUOZONE. — Reprinted from Collier's Weekly, Nov. 18, 1905.
20. 20.Liquozone "Cures" Thirty-seven Varieties.
21. 21.The Men Who Back the Fake.
22. 22.Faked and Garbled Indorsements. — IMAGE ==> — ANALYSIS OF LIQUOZONE.
23. 23.Liquozone Kills a Great German Scientist.
24. 24.All Ills Look Alike to Liquozone. — IMAGE ==> — LEDERLE LABORATORIES. — 518 FIFTH AVENUE, — NEW YORK CITY.
25. 25.The Same Old Fake.
26. 26.IV—THE SUBTLE POISONS. — Reprinted from Collier's Weekly, Dec. 2, 1006.
27. 27.Prescribing Without Authority. — IMAGE ==>
28. 28.An Acetanilid Death Record. — IMAGE ==>
29. 29.Drugs That Deprave. — IMAGE ==> — NEW YORK STATE'S NEW POISON LABEL.
30. 30.On a cocain-laden medicine. — IMAGE ==> — IMAGE ==> — BIRNEY'S CATARRH CURE.
31. 31.V.—PREYING ON THE INCURABLES. — Reprinted from Collier's Weekly, Jan. 13, 1906. — IMAGE ==> — IMAGE ==> — A TYPICAL FRAUD. — IMAGE ==> — IMAGE ==> — IMAGE ==> — IMAGE ==>
32. 32.Absolutely False Claims.
33. 33.Health for Five Dollars.
34. 34.Piso Grows Cautious. — IMAGE ==>
35. 35.VI—THE FUNDAMENTAL FAKES. — Reprinted from Collier's Weekly, Feb. 17, 1906.
36. 36.Newspaper Accomplices.
37. 37.Quackery and Religion. — IMAGE ==>
38. 38.Safe Rewards.
39. 39.The Immortal Mrs. Pinkham. — IMAGE ==>
40. 40.The Germicide Family.
41. 41.Overworked Testimonials. — [IMAGE: ==>]
42. 42.No Questions Desired.
43. 43.Getting a Testimonial from a Physician.
44. 44.Testimonials for a Magic Ring.
45. 45.THE PATENT MEDICINE CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS. — Reprinted from Collier's Weekly, Nov. 4, 1905. — IMAGE ==>
46. 46.Silence is the Fixed Quantity.
47. 47.All Muzzle-Clauses Alike. — IMAGE ==>
48. 48.Where the Money Goes. — IMAGE ==>
49. 49.Mr. Cheney's Plan. — IMAGE ==> — IMAGE ==>
50. 50.Extract from a speech delivered before the Proprietary Association of — By Frank J. Cheney. — FRANK J. CHENEY. — IMAGE ==> — IMAGE ==>
51. 51.Valuable Newspaper Aid. — IMAGE ==> — EXAMPLE OF WHAT MR. CHENEY CALLS "SHIFTING THE RESPONSIBILITY."
52. 52.The Trust's Club for Legislators.
53. 53.The Trust's Club for Newspapers. — A PECULIAR "ETC." — PATENT MEDICINE CONCERNS AND LETTER BROKERS. — IMAGE ==>
54. 54.An Appeal To The American Woman. — "REPEATERS." — PATENT MEDICINES AND TESTIMONIALS. — IMAGE ==>

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