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. — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
The path of the pursuer and the prey often run obscurely parallel. — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
According to the estimate of a prominent advertising firm, above 90 per cent, of the earning capacity of the prominent nostrums is represented by… — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
Success: a marvelous stimulant, bubbling with inspiration and incitement. But for all except the few who are strong and steadfast, there lurks beneath the… — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
A wasted human being--that's a sort of practical blasphemy, according to my religion. — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
The ordinary run of advertising is nothing more than an effort to sell something by yelling in print. — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
Medicine would be the ideal profession if it did not involve giving pain. — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
Ignorance and credulous hope make the market for most proprietary remedies. — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
I'm a suicide. I walked right spang over the edge of life and disappeared. Splash! Bubble-bubble! There goes nothing. — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
You never get bored ... when you have the probabilities of your next meal to speculate on, pro and con. — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
I'd sell my soul to the devil if he'd buy such a weakly, puny, piffling little soul, just really to live and be something… — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession. — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
