The Great American Fraud
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THE
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GREAT AMERICAN
FRAUD
By SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS
ARTICLES ON THE NOSTRUM EVIL AND QUACKS
REPRINTED FROM COLLIER'S WEEKLY
SERIES I
The Nostrum Evil
I. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
II. Peruna and the Bracers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
III. Liquozone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
IV. The Subtle Poisons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
V. Preying on the Incurables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
VI. The Fundamental Fakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55
SERIES II
Quacks and Quackery
I. The Sure-cure school . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70
II. The Miracle Workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
III. The Specialist Humbug . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
IV. The Scavengers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .112
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-also-
- The Patent Medicine Conspiracy Against the Freedom of the Press.
- "Confidential." -The treatment accorded private letters by the nostrum manufacturers.
-and-
- Patent Medicines under the Pure Food Law.
FOURTH EDITION
Copyright 1905, 1906, 1907, by P.F. Collier & Son
press of
American Medical Association
535 Dearborn Avenue, Chicago, Illinois