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Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies - you had only to look at the claims…

— Frances Parkinson Keyes

“I have always understood that money made in the patent medicine business is a practical bar to social success.”

— Anonymous

“If you are confronted with the old advertisements interspersed throughout the medical text, you realise that the medical profession shamefully endorsed products that did…

— Gabrielle Palmer

A lot of medicines are not there to cure diseases. That's fine - drugs that keep people alive who wouldn't otherwise be alive are…

— Richard J. Roberts

“If Patents are for Patients, Then Patients will be for Patents.”

— Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala

[Economists' advice] is something like patent medicine - people know it is largely manufactured by quacks and that a good percentage of the time…

— Barbara Bergmann

Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.

— Adam Cohen

The impression I got during the research and interview process was that they are trying to own the disease and therefore own the cause…

— Ravida Din

[Who owns the patent on this vaccine?] Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?

— Jonas Salk

“Be Patient to become a Patent”

— Dr. Zeeshan Ahmed

When you have giant corporations that give you a one track message of "finding a cure" or of "hope" it can give the public…

— Ravida Din

It seems paradoxical that, as medical scientists make huge advances in discovering the mechanisms of common diseases, fewer and fewer innovative drugs are reaching…

— Mark Walport