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Samuel Hopkins Adams was an American writer and investigative journalist, known for his muckraking journalism. Born on January 26, 1871, and dying on November 16, 1958, Adams is celebrated for his exposés on the pharmaceutical industry's unsanitary conditions and fraudulent practices.

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“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.”

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“Medicine would be the ideal profession if it did not involve giving pain.”

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“Printer's ink, when it spells out a doctor's promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and most dangerous of poisons.”

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Book:The Great American fraud

Source: The Great American fraud

“With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.”

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Author:Samuel Hopkins Adams

About the Author

Born: January 26, 1871
Died: November 16, 1958
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 22

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