Nostrums and quackery; articles on the nostrum evil and quackery reprinted, with additions and modifications, from The Journal of the American Medical Association . ert iscments. KelhUir 386 Ql WKEliY larger box containing a complete thirty days* treatment forwhich $5 i- asked. If no further notice is taken of the Kelloggconcern, the unwilling recipient of the $5 treatment is bom-barded with a series of follow-up letters each succeeding letterbeing more insistent than its predecessor in urging that themoney he sent for the treatment. Like all mailorder medicalfakers. Kellogg lias a sliding sea
Nostrums and quackery; articles on the nostrum evil and quackery reprinted, with additions and modifications, from The Journal of the American Medical Association . ert iscments. KelhUir 386 Ql WKEliY larger box containing a complete thirty days* treatment forwhich $5 i- asked. If no further notice is taken of the Kelloggconcern, the unwilling recipient of the $5 treatment is bom-barded with a series of follow-up letters each succeeding letterbeing more insistent than its predecessor in urging that themoney he sent for the treatment. Like all mailorder medicalfakers. Kellogg lias a sliding seale of prices. The first twoletters ask $5 for the treatment that was sent unasked; thethird and fourth letters offer to accept $ while the fifthand sixth letters inform the prospective victim that a mere$ will square the account. The sixth letter ends with thestatement This is final. and, apparently it is, for no furtherreduction in the price of the treatment is made and neither isthe postage sent for the return of the $5 treatment. As itonly takes four cents to send the $5 treatment by mail, andas, apparently, the Kellogg company would lose money by. Rengo, Protone and Multo-Frutb come in packages as shown iuthis picture. Protone is supposed to put on ilesh ; Kengo is supposedto remove it. Multo-Fruto is a laxative. sending that four cents for the return of the treatment sent unasked the evident value of this $5 package of pillsi> less than four cents. Kelloggs Safe Fat Reducer Kelloggs Safe Fat Reducer used to be known as KelloggsObesity Food. It is not a food anil never was, hence when theFood and Drugs Act went into effect and falsifying becameillegal as well as immoral, the name was changed. The prepa-ration has been analyzed at various times and its reported by Or. Kebler, Chief of the Division of Drug- ofthe Bureau of Chemistry, at Washington, were: Poke root. Toasted bread. Thyroid gland. Before the Food and Drugs Act became operative. K
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