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The Great American Fraud

by Samuel Hopkins Adams

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  1. 1I — The Great American Fraud
  2. 2Drugs That Make Victims
  3. 3As to Testimonials
  4. 4The Magic “Red Clause”
  5. 5Fake Testimonials
  6. 6The Doctors Are Investigating
  7. 7What One Druggist Is Doing
  8. 8A Post-Office Report
  9. 9Health Boards and Analyses
  10. 10II — Peruna and the Bracers
  11. 11What Peruna Is Made of
  12. 12The Government Forbids the Sale of Peruna to Indians
  13. 13Two Testimonials
  14. 14Medicine or Liquor?
  15. 15Some Alcohol Percentages
  16. 16What the Government Can Do
  17. 17III — Liquozone
  18. 18Liquozone “Cures” Thirty-seven Varieties
  19. 19The Men Who Back the Fake
  20. 20Faked and Garbled Indorsements
  21. 21Liquozone Kills a Great German Scientist
  22. 22All Ills Look Alike to Liquozone
  23. 23The Same Old Fake
  24. 24IV — The Subtle Poisons
  25. 25Prescribing Without Authority
  26. 26An Acetanilid Death Record
  27. 27Drugs That Deprave
  28. 28On a Cocain-Laden Medicine
  29. 29V — Preying on the Incurables
  30. 30Absolutely False Claims
  31. 31Health for Five Dollars
  32. 32Piso Grows Cautious
  33. 33VI — The Fundamental Fakes
  34. 34Newspaper Accomplices
  35. 35Quackery and Religion
  36. 36Safe Rewards
  37. 37The Immortal Mrs. Pinkham
  38. 38The Germicide Family
  39. 39Overworked Testimonials
  40. 40No Questions Desired
  41. 41Getting a Testimonial From a Physician
  42. 42Testimonials for a Magic Ring
  43. 43The Patent Medicine Conspiracy Against the Freedom of the Press
  44. 44Silence Is the Fixed Quantity
  45. 45All Muzzle-Clauses Alike
  46. 46Where the Money Goes
  47. 47Mr. Cheney’s Plan
  48. 48Extract From a Speech Delivered Before the Proprietary Association of
  49. 49Valuable Newspaper Aid
  50. 50The Trust’s Club for Legislators
  51. 51The Trust’s Club for Newspapers
  52. 52An Appeal to the American Woman

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