The Great American Fraud / The Patent Medicine Evil
By Samuel Hopkins Adams
Length4h 32m
About this audiobook
Samuel Hopkins Adams was an American writer and muckraker. The muckrakers (a term coined by President Theodore Roosevelt) were writers of the Progressive movement of the early twentieth century who exposed the corruption of businesses or government to the public. Often accused of being socialists or communists, they played a significant role in social justice movements by constantly reporting on the dark corners of American society, especially corporate America.1 We might say that they were the Michael Moores of their day. Adams was widely known for his writings on public health and patent medicines; he is often given much of the credit for the passage of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act.(Excerpt from Wikipedia)
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GenreHistory
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Publish dateSep 18, 2016
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THE GREAT AMERICAN FRAUD
26Prescribing Without Authority.
2I. THE GREAT AMERICAN FRAUD.
27An Acetanilid Death Record.
3Drugs That Make Victims.
28Drugs That Deprave.
4As to Testimonials.
29On a cocain-laden medicine.
5The Magic "Red Clause."
30V.—PREYING ON THE INCURABLES.
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6Fake Testimonials.
31Absolutely False Claims.
7The Doctors Are Investigating.
32Health for Five Dollars.
8What One Druggist Is Doing.
33Piso Grows Cautious.
9A Post-Office Report.
34VI—THE FUNDAMENTAL FAKES.
10Health Boards and Analyses.
35Newspaper Accomplices.
11II. PERUNA AND THE BRACERS.
36Quackery and Religion.
12What Peruna Is Made Of.
37Safe Rewards.
13The Government Forbids the Sale of Peruna to Indians.
38The Immortal Mrs. Pinkham.
14Two Testimonials.
39The Germicide Family.
15Medicine or Liquor?
40Overworked Testimonials.
16Some Alcohol Percentages.
41No Questions Desired.
17What the Government Can Do.
42Getting a Testimonial from a Physician.
18III.—LIQUOZONE.
43Testimonials for a Magic Ring.
19Liquozone "Cures" Thirty-seven Varieties.
44THE PATENT MEDICINE CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.
20The Men Who Back the Fake.
45Silence is the Fixed Quantity.
21Faked and Garbled Indorsements.
46All Muzzle-Clauses Alike.
22Liquozone Kills a Great German Scientist.
47Where the Money Goes.
23All Ills Look Alike to Liquozone.
48Mr. Cheney's Plan.
24The Same Old Fake.
49Extract from a speech delivered before the Proprietary Association of
25IV—THE SUBTLE POISONS.
50Valuable Newspaper Aid.
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