THE GREAT AMERICAN FRAUD

By Samuel Hopkins Adams

A Series of Articles on the Patent Medicine Evil, Reprinted from Collier's Weekly

CONTENTS

I. THE GREAT AMERICAN FRAUD.

Drugs That Make Victims.

As to Testimonials.

The Magic "Red Clause."

Fake Testimonials.

The Doctors Are Investigating.

What One Druggist Is Doing.

A Post-Office Report.

Health Boards and Analyses.

II. PERUNA AND THE BRACERS.

What Peruna Is Made Of.

The Government Forbids the Sale of Peruna to Indians.

Two Testimonials.

Medicine or Liquor?

Some Alcohol Percentages.

What the Government Can Do.

III.—LIQUOZONE.

Liquozone "Cures" Thirty-seven Varieties.

The Men Who Back the Fake.

Faked and Garbled Indorsements.

Liquozone Kills a Great German Scientist.

All Ills Look Alike to Liquozone.

The Same Old Fake.

IV—THE SUBTLE POISONS.

Prescribing Without Authority.

An Acetanilid Death Record.

Drugs That Deprave.

On a cocain-laden medicine.

V.—PREYING ON THE INCURABLES.

Absolutely False Claims.

Health for Five Dollars.

Piso Grows Cautious.

VI—THE FUNDAMENTAL FAKES.

Newspaper Accomplices.

Quackery and Religion.

Safe Rewards.

The Immortal Mrs. Pinkham.

The Germicide Family.

Overworked Testimonials.