“Ignorance and credulous hope make the market for most proprietary remedies.” IgnoranceMedicineIgnorantRemedy Author:Samuel Hopkins Adams
“Any physician who advertises a positive cure for any disease, who issues nostrum testimonials, who sells his services to a secret remedy, or who diagnoses and treats by mail patients he has never seen, is a quack.” SecretIssuesDiseaseTreatsSellsMedicinePatientCuresMailRemedyPhysiciansDiagnosisQuacksTestimonial Author:Samuel Hopkins Adams
“Medicine would be the ideal profession if it did not involve giving pain.” IfsGivingWould BePainIdealsMedicineProfessionPhysicians Author:Samuel Hopkins Adams
“Printer's ink, when it spells out a doctor's promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and most dangerous of poisons.” DangerousPromiseDoctorsMedicineCuresPoisonSpellsPhysiciansInkPrinter Book:The Great American fraud Source: The Great American fraud
“With a few honorable exceptions the press of the United States is at the beck and call of the patent medicines. Not only do the newspapers modify news possibly affecting these interests, but they sometimes become their agents.” SometimesStatesInterestUnitedUnited StatesNewsPressesMedicineNewspapersAgentsExceptionHonorablePatentsBeck And Call Author:Samuel Hopkins Adams
