Patent Medicines Quotes by Samuel Hopkins Adams

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• Ignorance and credulous hope make the market for most proprietary remedies.
• According to the estimate of a prominent advertising firm, above 90 per cent, of the earning capacity of the prominent nostrums is…
• We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and…
• Any physician who advertises a positive cure for any disease, who issues nostrum testimonials, who sells his services to a secret remedy,…
• Medicine would be the ideal profession if it did not involve giving pain.
• Printer's ink, when it spells out a doctor's promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and most dangerous of poisons.
• With a few honorable exceptions the press of the United States is at the beck and call of the patent medicines. Not…
• With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.
• Shut your eyes to the medical columns of the newspapers, and you will save yourself many forebodings and symptoms.

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