The Great American Fraud / The Patent Medicine Evil

by Samuel Hopkins Adams

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Contents

1. I. The Great American Fraud
2. Drugs That Make Victims
3. As to Testimonials
4. The Magic "Red Clause."
5. Fake Testimonials
6. The Doctors Are Investigating
7. What One Druggist Is Doing
8. A Post-Office Report
9. Health Boards and Analyses
10. II. Peruna and the Bracers
11. What Peruna Is Made Of
12. The Government Forbids the Sale of Peruna to Indians
13. Two Testimonials
14. Medicine or Liquor?
15. Some Alcohol Percentages
16. What the Government Can Do
17. III.—Liquozone
18. Liquozone "Cures" Thirty-seven Varieties
19. The Men Who Back the Fake
20. Faked and Garbled Indorsements
21. Liquozone Kills a Great German Scientist
22. All Ills Look Alike to Liquozone
23. The Same Old Fake
24. IV—The Subtle Poisons
25. Prescribing Without Authority
26. An Acetanilid Death Record
27. Drugs That Deprave
28. On a cocain-laden medicine
29. V.—Preying on the Incurables
30. Absolutely False Claims
31. Health for Five Dollars
32. Piso Grows Cautious
33. VI—The Fundamental Fakes
34. Newspaper Accomplices
35. Quackery and Religion
36. Safe Rewards
37. The Immortal Mrs. Pinkham
38. The Germicide Family
39. Overworked Testimonials
40. No Questions Desired
41. Getting a Testimonial from a Physician
42. Testimonials for a Magic Ring
43. The Patent Medicine Conspiracy Against the Freedom of the Press
44. Silence is the Fixed Quantity
45. All Muzzle-Clauses Alike
46. Where the Money Goes
47. Mr. Cheney's Plan
48. Extract from a speech delivered before the Proprietary Association of
49. Valuable Newspaper Aid
50. The Trust's Club for Legislators
51. The Trust's Club for Newspapers
52. An Appeal To The American Woman

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