Nostrums and quackery; articles on the nostrum evil and quackery reprinted, with additions and modifications, from The Journal of the American Medical Association . ue may, if great care be not taken, prove aboomerang. We present a case of this kind. The Blackwell (Okla.) Neics for Augusl 24, 1911, con-tained an advertisement in which a -Mrs. Charles Butcher of that city testified to I lie virtues of Moans Kidney Pills. As amatter of fact. Mrs. Charles Butcher had been dead nearly twomonths before the advertisemenl appealed: and -In died olkidney disease! From the standpoint of the advertiser,
Nostrums and quackery; articles on the nostrum evil and quackery reprinted, with additions and modifications, from The Journal of the American Medical Association . ue may, if great care be not taken, prove aboomerang. We present a case of this kind. The Blackwell (Okla.) Neics for Augusl 24, 1911, con-tained an advertisement in which a -Mrs. Charles Butcher of that city testified to I lie virtues of Moans Kidney Pills. As amatter of fact. Mrs. Charles Butcher had been dead nearly twomonths before the advertisemenl appealed: and -In died olkidney disease! From the standpoint of the advertiser, this episode merelymeans poor business management. From the standpoint ofthe public it means more. Doans Kidney Fills are a fraudand a dangerous fraud. While they are advertised to cureall kidney ills the assertion is a false one. While they aresaid to be a simple vegetable remedy. the analysis contra-dicts this G88 MISCELLANEOUS Aside from the positive dangers of self-drugging withso-called kidney cures there is an even greater negativedanger that people afflicted with kidney disease Will neglectproper treatment until they have readied the incurable Photographic reproduction (greatly reduced) of a Doans Kidney Pills adver-tisement that appeared in the Blackwell (Okla.) Neics, August 24, 1911, and acertified copy of the deatli certificate of Mrs. Charles Butcher, Blackwell, advertisement contains a testimonial by Mrs. Charles Butcher, testifying tothe value of lioans Kidney Pills. The death certificate shows that Mrs. Butchersuccumbed to kidney disease two months before her testimonial was published. The viciousness of the patent medicine business lies not somuch in it^ assault on the public purse as in its insidiousdangers to the public health. PRESS-CLIPPINGS AND NOSTRUM ENTERPRISE Of the many charges that may be preferred against thepatent medicine makers, lack of enterprise in obtainingprospective victims is not one of them. We have referredbefore to that
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