Nostrums and quackery; articles on the nostrum evil and quackery reprinted, with additions and modifications, from The Journal of the American Medical Association . nd 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 those individuals who claim to curethe drug habit by mail. Mr. Adams apostrophizes them thus: At the bottom of the noisome pit of charlatanrycrawl tlie drug-habit specialists. The
Nostrums and quackery; articles on the nostrum evil and quackery reprinted, with additions and modifications, from The Journal of the American Medical Association . nd 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 those individuals who claim to curethe drug habit by mail. Mr. Adams apostrophizes them thus: At the bottom of the noisome pit of charlatanrycrawl tlie drug-habit specialists. They are the scav-engers, delving amid the carrion of the fraudulent nos-I rum business for their profits. The human wrecksmade by the opium- and cocain-laden secret patentmedicines come to them for cure, and are wrung drvof the last drop of blood. By comparison with theseleeches of the uttermost slime, the regular patentmedicine faker is a pattern of righteousness. . .They deliberately foster the most dreadful forms ofslavery, for their own profit. They have discovered amoney-making villainy worse than murder, for which,apparently, there is no legal Some so-called cures for the morphin habit. Also a package ofsmoking opium. (By courtesy of the Committee on Interstate andIm < ilii Commerce.) Of the cures themselves he says: Practically all of these advertised remedies are-imply the drug itself in concealed form. Xo effort ismade to save the patient. The whole purpose is tosubstitute for the slavery to the drug purchased ofthe corner pharmacist the slavery to the same drug,disguised, purchased at a much larger price from theDoctor or •Institute or Society. One of these vicious and dangerous cures i- nostrum advertised by the Delta Chemical Co., of St. the positive cure of the morphin and other drug Delta Chemical Company i-. according to reports, practically owned by one Ryland (. Bruce, who was previously inthe insurance business: th
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