The Great American Fraud / The Patent Medicine Evil
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- THE GREAT AMERICAN FRAUD
- A Series of Articles on the Patent Medicine Evil, Reprinted from Collier's Weekly
- I. THE GREAT AMERICAN FRAUD.
- Reprinted from Collier's Weekly, Oct. 7, 1905.
- IMAGE ==>
- Drugs That Make Victims.
- As to Testimonials.
- The Magic "Red Clause."
- Fake Testimonials.
- IMAGE ==>
- IMAGE ==> A WINDOW EXHIBIT IN A CHICAGO DRUG STORE.
- The Doctors Are Investigating.
- What One Druggist Is Doing.
- IMAGE ==> PLEASE DO NOT ASK US
- A Post-Office Report.
- Health Boards and Analyses.
- II. PERUNA AND THE BRACERS.
- Reprinted from Collier's Weekly, Oct. 28, 1905.
- What Peruna Is Made Of.
- The Government Forbids the Sale of Peruna to Indians.
- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, OFFICE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,
- C. F. LARRABEE,
- IMAGE ==>
- Two Testimonials.
- IMAGE ==> A SALOON WINDOW DISPLAY AT AUBURN. N. Y.
- Medicine or Liquor?
- IMAGE ==>
- IMAGE ==> REV. W. N. DUNHAM.
- "REV." M. N. HOUGHTON.
- Some Alcohol Percentages.
- What the Government Can Do.
- III.—LIQUOZONE.
- Reprinted from Collier's Weekly, Nov. 18, 1905.
- Liquozone "Cures" Thirty-seven Varieties.
- The Men Who Back the Fake.
- Faked and Garbled Indorsements.
- IMAGE ==> ANALYSIS OF LIQUOZONE.
- Liquozone Kills a Great German Scientist.
- All Ills Look Alike to Liquozone.
- IMAGE ==>
- LEDERLE LABORATORIES.
- 518 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY.
- The Same Old Fake.
- IV—THE SUBTLE POISONS.
- Reprinted from Collier's Weekly, Dec. 2, 1006.
- Prescribing Without Authority.
- IMAGE ==>
- An Acetanilid Death Record.
- IMAGE ==>
- Drugs That Deprave.
- IMAGE ==> NEW YORK STATE'S NEW POISON LABEL.
- On a cocain-laden medicine.
- IMAGE ==>
- IMAGE ==>
- BIRNEY'S CATARRH CURE.
- V.—PREYING ON THE INCURABLES.
- Reprinted from Collier's Weekly, Jan. 13, 1906.
- IMAGE ==>
- IMAGE ==> A TYPICAL FRAUD.
- IMAGE ==> IMAGE ==> IMAGE ==>
- IMAGE ==>
- Absolutely False Claims.
- Health for Five Dollars.
- Piso Grows Cautious.
- IMAGE ==>
- VI—THE FUNDAMENTAL FAKES.
- Reprinted from Collier's Weekly, Feb. 17, 1906.
- Newspaper Accomplices.
- Quackery and Religion.
- IMAGE ==>
- Safe Rewards.
- The Immortal Mrs. Pinkham.
- IMAGE ==>
- The Germicide Family.
- Overworked Testimonials.
- [IMAGE: ==>]
- No Questions Desired.
- Getting a Testimonial from a Physician.
- Testimonials for a Magic Ring.
- THE PATENT MEDICINE CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.
- Reprinted from Collier's Weekly, Nov. 4, 1905.
- IMAGE ==>
- Silence is the Fixed Quantity.
- All Muzzle-Clauses Alike.
- IMAGE ==>
- Where the Money Goes.
- IMAGE ==>
- Mr. Cheney's Plan.
- IMAGE ==>
- IMAGE ==>
- Extract from a speech delivered before the Proprietary Association of
- FRANK J. CHENEY. IMAGE ==> IMAGE ==>
- Valuable Newspaper Aid.
- IMAGE ==> EXAMPLE OF WHAT MR. CHENEY CALLS "SHIFTING THE RESPONSIBILITY."
- The Trust's Club for Legislators.
- The Trust's Club for Newspapers.
- A PECULIAR "ETC."
- PATENT MEDICINE CONCERNS AND LETTER BROKERS.
- IMAGE ==>
- An Appeal To The American Woman.
- "REPEATERS."
- PATENT MEDICINES AND TESTIMONIALS.
- IMAGE ==>
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