Any physician who advertises a positive cure for any disease, who issues nostrum testimonials, who sells his services to a secret remedy, or who diagnoses and treats by mail patients he has never seen, is a quack.
With a few honorable exceptions the press of the United States is at the beck and call of the patent medicines. Not only do the newspapers modify new… - Samuel Hopkins Adams
With a few honorable exceptions the press of the United States is at the beck and call of the patent medicines. Not only do the newspapers modify new…
- Samuel Hopkins Adams
Ignorance and credulous hope make the market for most proprietary remedies. - Samuel Hopkins Adams
Ignorance and credulous hope make the market for most proprietary remedies.
With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession. - Samuel Hopkins Adams
With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.
The ordinary run of advertising is nothing more than an effort to sell something by yelling in print. - Samuel Hopkins Adams
The ordinary run of advertising is nothing more than an effort to sell something by yelling in print.
Any physician who advertises a positive cure for any disease, who issues nostrum testimonials, who sells his services to a secret remedy, or who diag… - Samuel Hopkins Adams
Any physician who advertises a positive cure for any disease, who issues nostrum testimonials, who sells his services to a secret remedy, or who diag…
Printer's ink, when it spells out a doctor's promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and most dangerous of poisons. - Samuel Hopkins Adams
Printer's ink, when it spells out a doctor's promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and most dangerous of poisons.
Medicine would be the ideal profession if it did not involve giving pain. - Samuel Hopkins Adams
Medicine would be the ideal profession if it did not involve giving pain.
The path of the pursuer and the prey often run obscurely parallel. - Samuel Hopkins Adams
The path of the pursuer and the prey often run obscurely parallel.
Success: a marvelous stimulant, bubbling with inspiration and incitement. But for all except the few who are strong and steadfast, there lurks beneat… - Samuel Hopkins Adams
Success: a marvelous stimulant, bubbling with inspiration and incitement. But for all except the few who are strong and steadfast, there lurks beneat…
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