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
Length4 hrs 32 mins
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Publish dateSep 18, 2016
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THE GREAT AMERICAN FRAUD
28Drugs That Deprave.
2I. THE GREAT AMERICAN FRAUD.
29On a cocain-laden medicine.
3Drugs That Make Victims.
30V.—PREYING ON THE INCURABLES.
4As to Testimonials.
31Absolutely False Claims.
5The Magic "Red Clause."
32Health for Five Dollars.
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6Fake Testimonials.
33Piso Grows Cautious.
7The Doctors Are Investigating.
34VI—THE FUNDAMENTAL FAKES.
8What One Druggist Is Doing.
35Newspaper Accomplices.
9A Post-Office Report.
36Quackery and Religion.
10Health Boards and Analyses.
37Safe Rewards.
11II. PERUNA AND THE BRACERS.
38The Immortal Mrs. Pinkham.
12What Peruna Is Made Of.
39The Germicide Family.
13The Government Forbids the Sale of Peruna to Indians.
40Overworked Testimonials.
14Two Testimonials.
41No Questions Desired.
15Medicine or Liquor?
42Getting a Testimonial from a Physician.
16Some Alcohol Percentages.
43Testimonials for a Magic Ring.
17What the Government Can Do.
44THE PATENT MEDICINE CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.
18III.—LIQUOZONE.
45Silence is the Fixed Quantity.
19Liquozone "Cures" Thirty-seven Varieties.
46All Muzzle-Clauses Alike.
20The Men Who Back the Fake.
47Where the Money Goes.
21Faked and Garbled Indorsements.
48Mr. Cheney's Plan.
22Liquozone Kills a Great German Scientist.
49Extract from a speech delivered before the Proprietary Association of
23All Ills Look Alike to Liquozone.
50Valuable Newspaper Aid.
24The Same Old Fake.
51The Trust's Club for Legislators.
25IV—THE SUBTLE POISONS.
52The Trust's Club for Newspapers.
26Prescribing Without Authority.
53An Appeal To The American Woman.
27An Acetanilid Death Record.
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