Nostrums and quackery; articles on the nostrum evil and quackery reprinted, with additions and modifications, from The Journal of the American Medical Association . age ofone )t Coblentz pamphlets The Coblentz Common Sense Method of Curing the Morphin . . Habit consisted in substitutinga morphin mixture for the simple drug, thus creating a permanentcustomer for the treatment! This, in brief, describes the Governments case against Cob-lentz and his drug cure. The acting assistant attorney DRUG ci RES 193 general to the Postmaster General, after considering ;ill theevidence in the case, reported
Nostrums and quackery; articles on the nostrum evil and quackery reprinted, with additions and modifications, from The Journal of the American Medical Association . age ofone )t Coblentz pamphlets The Coblentz Common Sense Method of Curing the Morphin . . Habit consisted in substitutinga morphin mixture for the simple drug, thus creating a permanentcustomer for the treatment! This, in brief, describes the Governments case against Cob-lentz and his drug cure. The acting assistant attorney DRUG ci RES 193 general to the Postmaster General, after considering ;ill theevidence in the case, reported as follows: The respondeni i- engaged in mailing letters and printedcirculars to morphin habitues, and is soliciting and obtaining money from such pei-ons 1>\ promising to cure them of thathabit—that is to say, of the taste, desire and appetite formorphin, whereas, in truth, lie does not intend to cure or tryto cure such habit, hut instead intends to furnish patientswith a preparation containing substantially the same amountof morphin as they are accustomed to take, his purpose bein<;to deceive such persons and to profit by their appetite for mor-. The St. Paul Association is a Chicago fraud selling an allegedcure for the morphin habit. (By courtesy of the Committee on Inter-state and Foreign Commerce.) phin and to get money out of them under false and fraudulentpretenses of furnishing them a cure for the habit, when he issimply furnishing the drug itself and not a cure. On full consideration of the case, I find that Dr. J. , under his own name and under the name of theCompound Oxygen Association. Fort Wayne, Ind., is engaged incarrying on a scheme for obtaining money through the mailsby means of false and fraudulent pretenses, representationsand promises. I recommend, therefore, that a fraud orderhe issued against him and said Association. The order was issued. 104 Q\ WKERY HABITINA A chapter in the Great American Fraud entitled TheScavengers deals with thos
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