Ignorance and credulous hope make the market for most proprietary remedies.

- 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

With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.

- 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…

- 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.

- Samuel Hopkins Adams

The ordinary run of advertising is nothing more than an effort to sell something by yelling in print.

- Samuel Hopkins Adams

Medicine would be the ideal profession if it did not involve giving pain.

- Samuel Hopkins Adams

The path of the pursuer and the prey often run obscurely parallel.

- 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…

- Samuel Hopkins Adams